- Overview
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A picture book that compares the pain and suffering of life to the climbing of a thorny mountain.
- Book Intro
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There are various words expressing life.
Roads, mountains, rivers ... etc.
Maybe it’s because people have different ways of expressing their lives. The common ground found from those expressions is that
Life contains uncertainty and pain.
2023
A cactus
full of sharp throns as life.
This book describes life as a
cactus with many spiky thorns embedded in it. It is a thorn mountain.
The book structure is vertically long, giving the impression of climbing a mountain when the reader reads it.
Every reader feels about the end of the book differently.
Like what each of us wants at the end of our lives is different.
- About the Author
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Park Sunmi
(Russian) Художник Пак Сонми живёт в Корее и занимается созданием иллюстрированных книг. Её первая работа «Колючая гора» была удостоена премии BolognaRagazzi Award на Международной ярмарке детской книги в Болонье в 2013 году. В 2019 году вышла её вторая работа - книга для рисования «Body Blossom».
(English) Park Sunmi is a picture book writer working in Korea. Her first picture book, The Thorn Mountain, won the 2013 Bologna Ragazzi Award. In 2019, Park published her second drawing book, The Body Blossom.
- Award
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2013 Bologna Ragazzi Award in the Opera Prima section
- Recommendation
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Коллекция Музея Виктории и Альберта (Великобритания)
