(English) A Thinking Trip with Pinocchio
This book describes a thinking trip that Pinocchio who is a fifth grade student in elementary school takes with a fairy who is believed to exist only in our imagination. Pinocchio meets a fairy with a green cone hat who is believed to exist only in his imagination, and goes on seven trips for seven days. The story unfolds in two worlds: a real world and an imaginary world. Since the author had great inspiration from Hermann Hesse in his adolescence, she borrowed the frame of the two worlds from Demian, as an homage to Hesse's novel.
On the thinking trip with the fairy, Pinocchio contemplates his own questions through a method of inquiry and a dialog method that remind us of the Socratic method. On the first day, Pinocchio travels the imaginary world with the fairy and discusses drawings of surrealist painters like Salvador Dali. On the second day, he specifically talks about ""different is not wrong,"" which is the main theme of this book. On the third day, he discovers what is the most precious for us, and on the fourth day, he meets Hermann Hesse and discusses one of his works titled Das Glasperlenspiel, and in the course of the discussion, he happens to find answers to his own questions. On the fifth day, Pinocchio and the fairy talk about birth and death, which are two sides of the same coin in our lives. On the sixth day, Pinocchio is invited to an underground festival and meets the Goddess of Gaia, and searches for answers to his own questions. Lastly, on the seventh day, Pinocchio ultimately reaches a final conclusion over all of his own questions.
A Thinking Trip with Pinocchio is in a structure of having travels in search of seven questions for seven days. What makes this story more special is that at the end of each trip for the day, ""a ring of thinking"" that connects Pinocchio's question and answer is summarized in a short sentence, which is pleasant and witty like a children's verse. This gives readers a chance to meditate on Pinocchio's questions and answers that you might carelessly pass. In the form of wrap-up, it starts with ""thoughts follow one after another"" and practices of creating a ring of thinking are repeated up to chapter 7. As the readers come to learn the structure of ""oh, that?"" followed by the ""answer"" that unfolds like joyful children's poem, they can develop their own way of thinking unwittingly. This book contains very special illustrations that can make children's thinking trips more interesting and abundant. The illustrations include famous philosophers such as Nietzsche and Chuang-tzu that are met on the trip.
(French) Un voyage en pensée avec Pinocchio.
(中國語/中文) 与匹诺曹一起的思维旅行
(Indonesian) Buku ini berkisah tentang Pinokio, seorang siswa kelas 5 SD, dan peri dipikirannya melakukan perjalanan pikiran. Pinokio bertemu peri dan melakukan 7 perjalanan pikiran selama 7 hari. Dalam buku ini, pengungkapan cerita dilakukan melalui dua dunia. Yaitu “dunia nyata” dan “dunia imajinasi”. Penulis menggunakan kerangka cerita dari "dua dunia" pada novel 『Damian』 dalam rangka mengekspresikan rasa hormatnya setelah memperoleh asupan pemikiran pada masa remaja melalui Hermann Hesse. Pinokio melakukan perjalanan pikiran dengan peri, menemukan kerangka pemikiran mengenai pertanyaannya melalui “metode tanya-jawab” dan “metode berdialog”. 『Perjalanan Pikiran bersama Pinokio』 disusun sebagai kisah perjalanan 7 hari untuk menemukan jawaban atas 7 pertanyaan. Dan yang lebih istimewa lagi adalah pada setiap akhir perjalanan, Pinokio merangkum “kerangka pemikiran” antara pertanyaan dan jawabannya dengan menyenangkan dan seru dalam kalimat yang lebih pendek.
