- Overview
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A bedtime picture book about the psychological world and growth of children who are afraid to sleep by themselves.
- Book Intro
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(English) Wait for Tomorrow
Twinkles have begun to sleep by herself without her mom and dad. She lies in bed holding her doll friends after her mother promises they will go fly paper airplanes the next day. Unable to sleep, she tosses and turns in her bed for a long time. When the darkness approaches her window, her doll friends try to block the darkness, which Twinkles fears, but it is no use. The moment when Twinkles and her doll friends hide under the bed, the darkness swallows the room and instantly they find themselves transported to a forest full of thorny trees. Twinkles and her friends walk through the woods looking around and discover sweet pieces of candy, a pair of pink shoes, and a blue paper airplane flying away. They are all things that Twinkles is going to eat, wear and fly tomorrow. Twinkles soon overcome her fear and run after the blue paper airplane, thinking of tomorrow. Before she knows it, the dim dawn approaches. Twinkles, greeting the morning, get up with a bright face and asks her mother to go fly paper airplanes.
(Japanese) 明日を待って
お母さんお父さんと離れて一人で寝る練習を始めたピョルは、お母さんと明日、紙飛行機を飛ばしに行く約束をし、人形の友達を抱きしめながらベッドに横になる。なかなか眠りにつけず、しばらくゴロゴロしていると窓辺に暗闇が押し寄せてくる。ピョルと人形の友達がベッドの下に隠れた瞬間、暗闇は部屋を飲み込み、あっという間にとげの木でいっぱいの森に場所が変わる。ピョルが森の道を歩いていると甘い飴、ピンクの靴、飛んでいく青い紙飛行機を見つける。みんなピョルが明日食べようと、明日履こうと、明日飛ばそうとしたものだ。ピョルはすぐさま恐怖を振るい落とし、明日を思いながら青い紙飛行機を追いかける。
- About the Author
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Han Arum
(English)Han Areum majored in visual design in college and studied picture books in Ggokdu Illustration School. Han liked the curiosity and imagination of the boy in Crossing the Underpass, which made special the seemingly ordinary field trip and a common place such as an underpass, and she enjoyed illustrating for the book. Han wishes to express children's precious first experiences of feelings through a variety of imagination. She has illustrated for the book, A Weird Train.
