- Overview
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This is a poem picture book for children that provides the joy of reading rhythmic poems and shows the characteristics of each insect.
- Book Intro
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Poems written by Lee Sangkyo with his pure and fresh perspectives have been brought together with lively illustrations by Lee Haery! Hip-Hip-Hooray for Insects! is a poem picture book that features funny poems for children with lively pictures of insects. Readers can enjoy poems while they learn about the characteristics of insects through this book. Some insects have unique appearances, some have beautiful colors, and some have strange sounds or behaviors. The common thing about these insects is that we can see them everywhere, in places like mountains and fields, the garden at the apartment blcok, or even school playgrounds. Readers can learn about the insects that travel around everywhere and have a fun life without being bored through poems and illustrations.
This book shows live and vivid pictures featuring familiar insects such as the jumpy and speedy grasshopper, as well as stinkbugs and the dung-rolling dung beetle in a way that gets children interested in insects and nature around them. Reading poems that feel like mirroring the perspectives of children, readers can truly enjoy and learn the rhythm of Korean words.
- About the Author
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Lee Sang-Kyo
(English) A children’s poem written by Lee Sang-Kyo was recommended in a magazine Boy in 1973. Another of Lee's poems won the annual spring literary contest by Chosun Ilbo in 1974, and Lee's story for children won the annual spring literary contest by Dong-a Ilbo and Chosun Ilbo in 1977. Lee Sang-Kyo won the Sejong Children’s Literary Award and Korea Publication Literature Award. Lee served as a president of the Korean Children’s Poem Literature Association and asa vice president of the Korean Children’s Literature Association. Picture books written by Lee Sang-Kyo include When My Mom Goes to the Island to Pick Oysters, A Goblin and a Pudding Salesman, and I Am a Wandering Dog. Children’s poem collections created by Lee include Plop Plop, Crossing the Night, Dust, Are You Asleep?, and The Flower Laughs and the Wind Blows, MILLET SEED MAN OH BYOUNG SU, THE CAT INSTEAD OF ME. Stories for children made by Author Lee include Daengi Ddaengi and MY FIRST PRIZE CERTIFICATE. TELL ME I’M PRETTY was an IBBY Honors List book.
(French) Dong-si et Dong-hwa sont élues aux Arts littéraires du nouveau printemps du Dong-A Ilbo et du Chosun Ilbo et commencent à travailler comme écrivains. Elle a remporté le prix de littérature des contes de fées de Corée, le prix de la littérature pour enfants Haegang et le prix de la littérature pour enfants Sejong. Elle a notamment écrit Docteur en rollers, lapin de service et très petite maison.
(Russian) Газеты 'Донг-А Ильбо' и 'Чосон Ильбо' признали его работы лучшими в области детской литературы, и так он начал работу писателем. Выиграл премию Лучшая корейская сказка, премию за детскую литературу Хэган и премию за детскую литературу Седжон. Среди его работ 'Доктор на роликах', 'Дежурный кролик' и 'Очень маленький дом'.
Lee Haery
(English) Lee Hae-ry is a picture book author and illustrator. She studied visual design at Hongik University and the Graduate School of the same university. She wrote and illustrated On a Rainy Day and Run, and illustrated My House Full of Monsters, No One Knows Who I Am, Holes in Our Body, Summer Vacation, A Prickly Water Lily Leaf Said, and Guess Who?. Her works have been translated in many countries and gained praise internationally.
- Recommendation
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Association for Research on Children’s Publications, 2012
The Korea Kindergarten Association, 2013
