- Overview
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This is a story about Wanini, a young lion who is kicked out from her pack because she is useless. This story will make readers think about the meaning of friends and neighbors.
- Book Intro
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The main character of this story, Wanini, is a one-year-old lion. She is small and not good at hunting and this kicks her out of her pack. Lonely Wanini is ignored by monkeys and birds and chased by cheetahs. She comes very close to being shot by hunters, and even her journey to find a rainy place fails. Every single day is continued adventure and danger. This book captures Wanini's journey to become a full-grown lion in a realistic way. Wanini the Green Lioness features not only lions but many animals, such as black boars, hyenas, gnu, buffalo, baboons, and hippos, who all have their own ways of living their lives. The author lively shows the lives of these various different animals along with the peaceful Serengeti, where those animals live in harmony. Wanini the Green Lionesscaptures the unfamiliar and wonderful African meadow, and it will make its readers admire this new world.
- About the Author
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Yi Hyeon
(English) Yi Hyeon received the Chun Taeil Literary Award, the Grand Prize in the Changbi Good Children’s Book Manuscript Contest, and the Changwon Children’s Literature Award. Her book, Wanini the Green Lioness was included in the IBBY Honour List, and Yi was nominated for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award as author.
(Japanese) ジャンルや素材を超え、ベストセラーを生み出している韓国の代表的な童話作家。童話『青いライオンのワニニ』、『私は絹の道をゆく』、『ジャジャン麺が伸びますよ』、『ヨンドン洞の秘密」、青少年小説『私たちのスキャンダル』、『ヨンドゥの偶然な現実』、絵本『私は火星探査ロボット・オポチュニティーです』などが著書にある。第13回チョン・テイル文学賞と第10回チャンビ良い児童書大賞、そして第16回大山創作基金を受賞した。
Oh Yoon-wha
Oh Yoonwha, the illustrator of this book, studied illustration at the Kkokdu Illustration Institution and has been drawing pictures that are enjoyable for both adults and children. Books with illustrations done by Oh Yoonwha include The Whale Paccino, Must Go, Cock-a-Doodle, The Night of the Crying Ghost-Bird, A Perfect Family, Swallow in a Bite, Magic Rice Cake, The Complaint Confession, and The Day When Mom Hit Me with a Broomstick.
