- Overview
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This is a word game book that helps children learn Korean onomatopoeias and ideophones.
- Book Intro
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This book series helps children learn words as they play
with funny and beautiful Korean words. Infants and toddlers can experience the most robust language development possible. Toddlers can especially benefit from this book's linguistic stimulus.
The Korean language contains plenty of onomatopoeias and ideophones, when combined, these can make other symbolic words. That's why it's very effective for children to learn many different expressions and words when they hear onomatopoeias and ideophones that represent movements, sounds, and shapes.
This book showcases famous onomatopoeias and ideophones from the Standard Korean Language dictionary. Readers can learn these words through sentences and pictures and mimic them as they learn, creating new words in the process. Smile and Wiggle show ideophones, and Burr Burr: The Rolling Sound shows onomatopoeias. 10 symbolic words have been picked for each book, and content is provided that will be enjoyable for children as they have fun with these books.
- About the Author
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Kim Igoo
Kim Igoo was born in Yesan, South Chungcheong province in 1958 and graduated from Seoul National University and the graduate school of Sokang University with degrees in Korean Literature. Kim began his career as a novelist in 1988 through the literary magainze The Time of Literature Vol. 4 and as a literary critic in 1993 by winning the annual spring literary contest hosted by Kyunghyang Shinmun. Kim has previously served as the director of the Korean Writer's Meeting, a member of the literary subcommittee of the Korean Culture and Arts Committee, the vice president of the Academic Society of Korean Children and Adolescent Literature, and on the editorial staff of the quarterly literary magazine Changbi Children. Colletions of critiques created by Kim Igoo include The Way of Looking into Children's Literature and Reading the World inside Korean Novels. Story collections written by Kim include The House Made with Love and The Proposal of the First Night. Books compiled by Kim include Hannakwon Scientific Novel Collection.
Kim Seong-hee
Kim Seong-hee studied architecture at Hanyang University and majored in painting at HAW Hamburg (a national university of formative art) in Germany. Kim has vast interests in delivering profound stories with simple wordings. Books written and drawn by Kim Seong-hee include The Book Tree. Books with illustrations done by Kim include The Red Pencil, The Enormous Secret of an 8-Year-Old, and The Chatty Ladybug and the Strange Mr. Sulsul.
