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Shim Chung

Author

Suzy Lee

Publisher

Hintoki Press

Categories

Picture Books

Audience

9~12 years old

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Tale of Sim Chung
  • #song of Sim Chung
  • #modern recreation of folk tales
  • #folk tales
  • #picture book
  • #artist book
  • #book by independent publishers
  • #Suzy Lee

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Suzy Lee

  • Publication Date

    2019-06-19
  • No. of pages

    24
  • ISBN

    9791196718817
  • Dimensions

    210 * 297
Overview

Picture book writer Suzy Lee recreates a well-known Korean folktale, "The Tale of Shim Chung" with her picture book, Shim Chung.

Book Intro

Shim Chung is one of the results of the Vacance Project, an undertaking by a group of picture book writers to recreate and reinterpret Korean folk tales.

 

As the theme of her first story, Suzy Lee chose "The Tale of Shim Chung", an old Korean folktale and one of the five major pansori (dramatic songs). It is a story about a dutiful daughter, Shim Chung.  Her blind father recklessly promises to pay a tribute of 300 sacks of rice to a temple, hoping that the tribute will lead to the restoration of his vision. Shim Chung, his filial daughter, decides to sell herself to merchants to earn the money for the tribute rice, and she is thrown into the sea as a sacrifice. The dragon king is moved by Shim Chung's filial love and sends Shim Chung back to the world on a lotus petal, and she is reunited with her father.

 

In "The Tale of Shim Chung," Suzy Lee focuses on the scene of the sacrifice. Rather than focusing on the filial love that the original story emphasizes, Lee pays attention to the feelings of Shim Chung, a fifteen-year-old girl facing the deep black sea. Thus, omitting the main plot of the story with which most Korean people are familiar, Lee recreates Shim Chung's journey, from her boarding the boat to the aftermath of her drowning.

 

The sky and the earth are deadly silent; the magpie waves slash at the bow violently. Roaring high waves hit the ship and people hit the drums.

"Hurry! Jump into the sea!" 

(from "The Tale of Shim Chung")

 

 

Rolling, mountainous waves; the black mouth of the sea about to swallow Shim Chung. Even though Shim Chung is overcome by filial love, how must have she felt in front of the fearful sea? Why did Shim Chung have to stand before the threatening waves? Lee expresses Shim Chung's various emotions with blue and black colors and with abridged text from the original pansori libretto. After Shim Chung is swallowed by the sea, on the last page of the book, the sea is quiet and clear, as if nothing has happened, and the merchant ship continues on its voyage, peacefully.

 

Classic stories have multiple layers of meanings and can be variously interpreted and recreated. Suzy Lee's Shim Chung highlights a small part of the original story. This book is an attempt to open the gap between time and space to revisit the classic story and illuminate the original tale from a new perspective. 

About the Author

Suzy Lee



(English) Suzy Lee studied painting and book art in Korea and Britain. She graduated with a BFA in Painting from Seoul National University and earned an MA in Book Arts in 2001 from Camberwell College of Arts in London. 

Her picture books have been published in many countries and are highly acclaimed by critics and loved by readers. She has won Korean Publishing Culture Awards, The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award, and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (Honor). The books she has written and illustrated include Shim Chung; River; Lines; Mirror; Wave; Shadow; and The Zoo. Lee has also illustrated for books, including Dream of Becoming Water; This Beautiful Day; and Open This Little Book. Currently, she is participating in the Vacance Project and running Hintoki Press. 

* Learn more about her at www.suzyleebooks.com

 

(French) Elle est née à Séoul en 1974. Elle a étudié la peinture et l'art du livre en Corée et en Angleterre. Elle a remporté le prix du plus beau livre de Suisse pour "La nuit du lapin" et a été nommée illustratrice de l'année à la Foire internationale du livre pour enfants de Bologne. "Let's Play Fado" a été sélectionné comme meilleur livre d'images du New York Times en 2008. Elle a remporté le Boston Globe Hon Book Honor Award pour "Ouvrez ce petit livre '' et a été la première Coréenne à être nommée pour le prix Hans Christian Andersen 2016. Ses œuvres comprennent "ZOO", "My Myongwon Painter" et "Open, door !". Il y a des portes, des oiseaux noirs, et "Into the Mirror".

 

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