- Overview
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This is a non-fiction picture book where forestry columnist Ko Gyu Hong and Choe Gyeongsik of Blue Fountain work together to tell the stories of trees around us.
- Book Intro
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This book tells the story of the trees, flowers, and grass that live around an apartment complex in an urban city. The trees that appear in the book are ones that can be found anywhere in Korea. Turning your eyes and getting to know the trees around you is about communicating with nature. Just by watching the trees around us for four seasons, we can be awakened to the preciousness of life and nature. Additionally, the illustrations of the trees around us by Choe Gyeongsik, done with pencil and watercolors, lets us feel the warmth of the nature.
The author, Ko Gyu Hong, has lived in the city since he was a child and still lives in an apartment complex in the metropolitan area. He is a typical urban person. Just as busy as the other people of the city, on one busy day, he did discovered how many trees there were near where he lived. We have always gone far to see the tress, not realizing how many trees are around us. The author was amazed to know that the trees around him were protecting his everyday life. From that day, he looked at the trees of the city on his commute and began to listen to their story. So he raised his eyes and met the trees around us for a year, and decided to share the story with the children in a book.
The painter Choe Gyeongsik used watercolors to paint trees and flowers in order to preserve the colors of nature. While drawing them, he became acquainted with the trees of the city living in the forest of concrete apartments and learned their names. This is the reason why the paintings of Choe Gyeongsik, who silently listened to and depicted the trees of the city that silently guarded us, are so warm and sweet.
- About the Author
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Ko Gyu Hong
Ko Gyu Hong (M) is a forestry columnist. After graduating from Sogang University, he worked as a daily journalist. Since the spring of 2000, he has been sharing a photo column called "Wood Letter from the Pine Forest" through his website "Pine Forest.com." He is also director of the Chollipo Arboretum and Adjunct Professor at Hallym University and Inha University. Books written by him include Our Trees to Be Protected (three volumes in total), Ko Gyu Hong's Special Lecture on Trees in Korea and Schubert and the Tree.
Choi Kyungsik
(Vietnamese) Vì thích vẽ và sáng tạo ra mọi thứ nên đã học kiến trức nhưng cuối cùng lại trở thành một người vẽ tranh minh họa. Tôi cố gắng kể những câu chuyện cuộc sống xuất hiện khi sống cùng vợ và hai con thông qua các cuốn sách tranh. "Đài phun nước màu xanh" là tác phẩm đầu tay.
(English) Choi Kyungsik (M) studied Architecture because he liked to draw and create something, and now he has finally became an illustrator. He tries to tell the stories that come to his mind during everyday life with his wife and two children in his picture books. A Blue Fountain is the first picture book he wrote and illustrated.
(Indonesian) penulis menyukai lukisan dan ia belajar tentang bangunan sehinga ia memutuskan menjadi ilustrator. Penulis berusaha menampilkan cerita yang muncul dalam kehidupan bersama istri dan dua anaknya dengan buku bergambar. Buku 'air mancur biru' ini merupakan buku pertama yang ia tulis dan gambar.
(Japanese) 作って描くことが好きで建築を勉強し、ついにイラストレーターになりました。妻と二人の子供と一緒に暮らしながら思い浮かぶ話を絵本に解いてみようと思います。『青い噴水』は作家が書き、描いた初の絵本です。
- Recommendation
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School Library Journal, 2018, Recommended book
- Selection
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Korea Foundation of Bookstore Association, 2018, Dokkebi Bookstore Project
