BIR 2012 Bologna

Phone +82-2-3443-4318~9 Fax +82-2-3442-4661 Address BIR Publishing Co., Ltd. 4F Gangnam Publishing Culture Center 506 Sinsa-Dong, Gangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-887, Korea www.bir.co.kr BIR is one of the leading publishers in Korea. We publish quality literature for pre-school children through young adults, from board BIR books and picture books to novels. We introduce world-famous Publishing Co.,Ltd. picture books and novels including works by award winning authors and illustrators like John Burningham, Ezra Jack Keats, Raymond Briggs, and Michael Ende. In addition, we work with Korean authors and illustrators whose works have proven successful outside of Korea, such as “Th e Zoo”, illustrated by Suzy Lee, Best non-fi ction Illustrator at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and “Seven Friends in a Lady’s Chamber”, introduced in Japan and France. Recently, we have ventured into a new division, printing a series of books on science and novels dealing with math and economy. We have won praises from the young readers, parents and teachers as being one of the most reliable and trustworthy publishers. NEW FOR 2012 PICTURE BOOK 42 The White Mouse Story NONFICTION PICTURE BOOK YA FICTION Contents 43 Rabbit and Turtle 5 Hi, Rain! 23 The Zoo 44 Princess Bari 58 Steve Jobs 74 Hiking Girls 6 Finding PI-TAK-I 24 My Myung-won Art Studio 45 Gyun-woo & Jick-nyo 59 World Travel of Gil-Jun Yu, ninja Girls 8 Lumberjack and Angel 25 My Treasure number One Tino 46 The Story of the Uh-Chuh-Goony Scholar of the Joseon Dynasty Fantastic Girl 9 Kong-suk and Pat-suk 26 If I Became a Real Tree 47 Shim Cheong 60 Gimjang at Geum-dong’s 75 Why Are We Only Seventeen 10 Yellow Taxi 27 The Mouth Told the Bum 48 Half Man 61 On the Grandma’s Jesa Kissing My Life 11 Red Pencil 28 The Old Lady with a Bent-Back 49 Sweet Water Hill 62 Open! Door 76 Blue Cheetah Is Running 12 Sunshine Library of Ms. Elephant 29 Unsinging Piano 50 The Good Brothers A Piece of Paper Juliet Club 13 Spicy Tteokboki for Sadness 30 God Loves to Bathe 51 A Lazy Man Who Becomes a Cow 63 Wrinkles and Creases 77 Larva Project 14 She Smiles at Me 31 Mommy’s Travel Purse 52 How to Catch a Tiger Big and Small Here Come the Losers 15 Just, Curling 32 The Black Bean Bug 53 Red Bean Porridge Granny and the Tiger What Colors Say 78 Sitting Devil 16 Dinosaur Warrior Bean 33 The Hole 54 How the Three Brothers Got Rich 64 Greetings from the Tropical Ocean! The Spring Training of My Life 18 Our Salty Summer Days 34 All Are Mine! 55 The Magic Pot 65 A Letter from the South Pole 19 Welcome, My Future 35 Give Me Back My Shell! 56 A Red Fan and a Blue Fan 66 Where Do Babies Come From COMIC BOOK 20 History of Economy for Children 36 I Like Cars / I Like Stars Bumpy Faced Old Men 21 Plutarch’s Lives (Cartoon) 37 Let’s Put on Clothes, Ta-da Let It Live or Let It Die STORY BOOK 80 Stop! Holding the Spoon and Yum, Yum! Rum Tata Tum Toot Toot 81 Chohanji Happy Birthday, Phh 68 nobody Knows but the Moon 82 Felix Is in Love with Money 38 Red Choo Choo 69 Taming Monsters 83 The Yummy Science Tempura 39 When I’m alone What on Earth Are You Going to Be? Hush Hush 70 Tteok Cafe for Man-bok What’s Going on Today? Rat Droppings for a Birthday Present Who’s Laughing? 71 Young-Mo’s Disappearance 40 The Seven Friends in a Lady’s Chamber The Magical Red Lipstick 41 The Curious Wall Scroll 72 Pluto, a Secret Society 1, 2, 3, 4 Hi, Rain! New for 2012 Fun that the worm, the snail and the turtle have on a raining day

What will happen in the grass when it rains? When a worm sticks its head out to hear the rain, a rain drop says “Hi!” Th e worm says hi back. Th e journey across the grass begins. Drop, drop, d-r-o-p. Drop, drop, d-r-o-p! To the sound of rain, the worm wriggles and travels to make friends with a snail and a turtle and fully enjoy the rainy day. Pom, pom, pom! Wearing the water crown, hopping across fresh and wet leaves, sliding on the leaf ship, paddling in the water, the worm has a great day. Th is book won Gold Dokkebi Written and Illustrated by Jayo Han Award 2011. Illustrations inspired by Asian painting of different rain drops, leaves, earth and changes of the air, and concise text describing various sounds of rain like a poem stimulates all senses.

Ages 2+ / 40pp / 223x245mm / May 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0164-4

new for 2012 ■ 5 Finding PI-TAK-I “Th e house runs away from home?” An imaginary adventure of PI-TAK-I, the small house

On the hill, there lived a small house called PI-TAK-I with slanted windows, a slanted chimney, and a slanted roof. As family members increased, PI-TAK-I’s body and soul got more tilted because children played harder and complained more about the narrow house everyday. Having lost its patience, PI-TAK-I abandoned the family and left -to meet a new family in the city. But a bumpy road was waiting for him-crossing a big river, finding its way in a city, and running into black bandits in the forest. Th is picture book is Written by Tae-ho Kim based on an interesting imagination that the house-regarded as Illustrated by Hyun-jin Jung an immobile, solid building-abandons the family and runs away. Delicate paper crafts and photos enhance fun of reading.

Ages 3+ / 36pp / 210x230mm / September 2011/ Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0165-1

6 new for 2012 ■ 7 Lumberjack and Angel Kong-suk and Pat-suk Korean traditional story which is warm text and powerful Reinterpretation of Korean Cinderella Story in the 1950s charcoal sketch Context

Once upon a time, there lived one old mother and a lumberjack at Long ago, a girl named Kong-suk lived in a city with her father a lone house in a very deep mountain Geumgang. The lumberjack and step mother and step sister, Pat-suk. The step mother ordered past the age of marriage but still single. One day, he brought a Kong-suk all the hard and bothersome work, and blamed Kong- beautiful angel home–because of a deer that tipped how to marry suk for everything including even what Pat-suk did wrong. One an angel as an appreciation to him for saving its life from a hunter. day, a new mayor’s announcement that he would marry the owner With the dreamy angel, he had three children and filled the house of a flower shoe he picked up on the road stirred the entire city. with laughter. But his happiness did not last for long. He dismissed The shoe belonged to Kong-suk! She finally married the mayor and Written and Illustrated by Young-kyung Lee the deer’s warning not to show the angel’s dress with wings until lived happily. But jealousy Pat-suk pushed Kong-suk into a pond, they had four children. One night, the angel wore her dress and and pretended to be Kong-suk to live with the mayor……. This went back to the heaven with her three children……. This picture picture book adapted Kong-gee and Pat-gee, one of the best known

Written by Jung-hee Oh book in a larger size tells one of the most famous Korean fairy tales Korean traditional stories into the story in the 1950s in Korea. The Illustrated by Sun-whan Jang with the new style of unique and strong-lined charcoal sketch. collage picture adds liveliness of the hard and poor lives in the days.

Ages 5+ / 40pp / 228x322mm / September 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0130-9 Ages 6+ / 44pp / 236x220mm / August 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0166-8

8 new for 2012 ■ 9 Yellow Taxi Red Pencil You are lost? Don’t worry! Yellow Taxi comes to the rescue! Special and secret diary of Min-ho who accidently meets a magically skillful pencil The picture book illustrates the happy drive of Yellow Taxi with warm touches of water painting. Vroom! Vroom! Mr. Yellow Taxi One day, Min-ho accidently finds a red pencil on his desk. is really great. He knows all the ways in the world-drive customers Unconsciously, he does the writing homework with and finds to anywhere they want. If you are lost or lose your friend, no need out its magical power. It looks like a normal pencil, but it moves to worry. A sneaker weeping to find a lost pair, a balloon losing automatically on a white paper to write wonderful stories. Thanks friends, a kitten looking for its mom-They all become happy as to the red pencil, Min-ho avoids difficult situations and is praised soon as they meet Mr. Yellow Taxi. Vroom, vroom! Mr. Yellow Taxi at school and home. But as the red pencil produces greater stories, crosses the pointy wood forest, the high hill, the dark tunnel and he finds himself more trapped. The magical pencil becomes Min- Written and Illustrated by Jung-young Min the bridge to take all the friends home safely. Children readers will ho’s secret, and the beautified stories that the red pencil writes Written by Soo-hyeon Shin naturally express thanks and appreciation to Taxi, yelling “Thank makes him a liar. This book won Gold Dokkebi Award 2011, with Illustrated by Sung-hee Kim you, Mr. Yellow Taxi.” a review that “it successfully explores confrontation with a hard-to- avoid temptation”, “a rare subject for a Korean youth book, in an *50,000 copies sold Ages 1+ / 26pp / 190x190mm (board-book) / July 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-8060-1 interesting and effective way.”

Rights sold: China

Ages 9+ / 212pp / 147x210mm / May 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-2133-8

10 new for 2012 ■ 11 Sunshine Library of Ms. Elephant Spicy Tteokboki for Sadness Wonderful book therapy of Librarian Ms. Elephant in my Hilarious but touching story of friendship between a great town match of two girls

It is an omnibus book of 5 stories happening in Lee Geum- Gangly San-ha and skinny little Sol-hee went to the same Lye Library, a little library recently built in one, very normal, kindergarten and now are going to the same elementary school, neighborhood. The library, named after the donator, is visited by and even study at home together. The best friends of 9 years comes 5 people: 6-year-old Jin-ju who dreams of collecting sunshine, up with interesting ideas that they could do at school and put them a stuttering Jin-ju’s mom who dreams of being talkative, Soo- into practice: cut San-ha’s long hair, fight back with bad behaving jung who needs a room for solitude away from crowded home, a boys, have a slumber party at a free Saturday, cook hot and spicy elephant-like big librarian who secretly falls in love with a librarian Tteokboki and help themselves when they are really, really sad, visitor, and Jung-ho who is bad at math but finds his potential as and plan a secret trip without parents’ knowing. While enjoying a soccer plyer. In this book, adults share their worries and sadness themselves everyday, they never forget care and trust toward just like children do, and become sincere and dear friends with each other. The book delivers the message “secret of the fantastic each other. friendship is trust” with a humorous writing.

Written by Hye-yeon Kim / Illustrated by Hyun-mook Choi Written by Jung-yun Kang / Illustrated by Mi-hee Kim I Am a Cuckoo Ages 9+ / 175pp / 147x210mm / March 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-2130-7 Ages 10+ / 196pp / 147x210mm / September 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-2135-2 Tell a Fun Story or I’ll Eat You A bittersweet friendship between little cuckoo, Bang-sil, famous storyteller in the Tinee town, Dong-jae and ‘goose dad’ man, living alone. goes catching a tiger! Written by Hye-yeon Kim / Illustrated by Yeon-ju Jang Written by Jung-yun Kang / Illustrated by Jung-han Kim Ages 10+ / 216pp / 148x210mm / 2009 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-2110-9 Ages 8+ / 121pp / 152x220mm / 2010 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-6129-7

12 new for 2012 ■ 13 She Smiles at Me Just, Curling The story of three magic marbles teaches what is a true Though it looks funny and has no future, it’s good! Cause we friendship are just doing Curling.

Young-jae is a normal boy: introverted, bad test score at school, This story is about boys who do “curling” as a breakthrough in pimples and soaked with sweat. One day, a girl “Muroo” with their lousy days to complete their youth. Eul-ha Cha, a “beta boy” mysterious aura transferred to his class. Being pretty, good at sports as an opposite of his sister, the alpha girl, who is a rising figure and nice, she treats Young-jae friendly, and the two become good skater called “a second Yuna Kim,” lives peaceful days like a minor friends. Whenever Young-jae worries about pimples or sweat, Mu- league player on the bench who finds it easier to give up trying. roo hands over marbles to solve his problems. When Young-jae All of sudden, he is scouted to a curling team by Inyong Seo, who swallows the yellow, blue, and red marbles just looking like candies, is as skinny as anchovy, and Gangsan, who has a huge figure and his problems disappear. But Mu-roo gets sick and her pretty face charisma as its nickname “bandit” tells, to make a 4-person curling now is covered with pimples. Now Young-jae becomes popular team and enter the competition. With this “somewhat funny Written by Sang-hee Choi and avoids her, finally trying to reveal Mu-roo’s secret. The book looking” and unpopular winter sport, boys start to make curves describes how a normal boy changes into a selfish and greed- on the ice and in their lives, instead of moving straight ahead. This obsessed kid after having magic marbles which realize his wishes. book won Blue Fiction Award 2011.

My Name Is Dog Written by Lily Kim / Illustrated by Mi-hyun Hong Ages 14+ / 288pp / 128x188mm / October 2011 / ISBN 978-89-491-2308-0 A rabbit who wants to be a dog, travels the world Ages 10+ / 168pp / 147x210mm / November 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-2137-6 Written by Lily Kim / Illustrated by Mun-ju Jung Ages 10+ / 164pp / 147x210mm / 2006 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-2102-4

14 new for 2012 ■ 15 Dinosaur Warrior Bean Creative imagination moving beyond Western fantasy novels Dinosaur battles must be an interesting creation for children, Fantasy, dinosaur story of Sang-ho Han, the director especially boys who are into dinosaurs. Battles might sound

of EBS mega-hit documentary and 3D movie like fighting against and winning over each other, but this story “Dinosaurs on the Korean Peninsula: jumbagi” introduces a different concept of battle. This sport is team-based: a team of one person and one dinosaur. What actually fight in the actual arena are dinosaurs but battle strategies are delivered from In a far-away future, dinosaurs are back alive to live side by a dinosaur warrior through “empathy” of their minds. And to side with human beings. Ten-year old, green-eyed boy, Bean. become a successful dinosaur warrior, the psychological training to Mysterious white dinosaur, Taro. A new hero story of two loners reach the “empathy” state where a person and a dinosaur has one dreaming of the best dinosaur warrior couple. mind, is more important than the physical training. So the dinosaur and the dinosaur warrior must deeply understand each other to win A prudent and quiet boy, Bean is small and weak. But he has a the battle. This novel delivers the Eastern philosophical message of bigger dream than anyone: to become a dinosaur warrior. He has “communicating without saying”. Written by Sang-ho Han great qualities required for a dinosaur warrior, but he fails to get in Illustrated by Kyung-nim Hong the Dinosaurs’ School. But the frustration helps him grow. “Do Ages 10+ / 496pp / 143x205mm / July 2011 what you want to do. Or you’ll regret it.” His father encourages Sang-ho Han He earned master's degree in documentary film at Royal Holloway, University of London. His works including "Dinosaurs in the Korean Peninsula" ISBN 978-89-491-7108-1 Bean to make friends with Taro and endure the entire course of (2008), "The Micro-World" (2004), "Letters" (2002) won many awards including Korea harsh training to realize his dream. Communication Commission Awards, Korean Producers and Directors' Association Awards, and Samsung Journalism Awards.

16 new for 2012 ■ 17 Our Salty Summer Days Welcome, My Future In search of a true treasure which can fix our broken hearts Story of adolescents who find another way on the sidelines

The 16-year-old Cho-a has a very young, 36-year-old mother. After his father died, Se-poong lives with mother who makes a And a half brother, who happens to have the same family name living in a extreme poverty and difficulty, and big brother, who with Cho-a. Cho-a’s mother is accused of a fraud, having stolen acts younger than Se-poong, and sister. One day, he fought with acquaintances’ money and has to run away to a lone no-name island the gang of Do-min Cha, who is the number one fighter at school, at the end of the country. Cho-a also has to leave home and school and dropped out of school after consideration. To help the family’s to follow her mother. In the island, there lives a grandmother, living, he entered into a real life. Moving between part-time jobs, mother of Cho-a’s mother, who has been left alone after Cho-a’s he experiences harsh reality. But he never gives up on his life in mother ran away 16 years ago. Cho-a’s mother comes back to this which he lives happily with mother and brother. Staying out of the island to receive a family heirloom of the old documentary from main way, he finds another way of his. This book deliver positive grandmother and have a second chance in life. Despite the absurd message of warm consolation with the affection and love for the Written by Ho-moon Yang Written by Chae Oh reason, Cho-a joins her mother to find the “treasure” and gets to young who is out of the attention, and satirizes adults who are know the secret of family - grandmother, mother and Cho-a. Cho- stained with hypocrisy and lies to live a “fake live.” a’s family seeks a treasure that could change their lives entirely, but Ages 14+ / 306pp / 133x203mm / October 2011 / ISBN 978-89-491-2307-3 they cannot find “a treasure to fix their broken hearts”.

Ages 14+ / 234pp / 133x203mm / July 2011 / ISBN 978-89-491-2306-6

18 new for 2012 ■ 19 History of Economy for Children Plutarch’s Lives (Cartoon) Meet the cartoon adaptation of German youth book, Great adventures of heroes in Ancient Greece and Rome 『Geschichte der Wirtschaft (History of Economy)』, winner of Jugendliteraturpreis for non-fiction! Plutarch’s Lives is a collection of biographies of heroes in ancient Greece and Rome, comparing their characters and lives. The Felix and his friends launched their business! To find books cartoon version, scheduled to come out in 20 volumes, selects 20 on economic studies, they go to a book store and run into Mr. heroes who made exceptional accomplishment to follow major Schumidt who is very knowledgeable about the economy and milestones of ancient Greece and Rome's history. The volume 1 teaches the children history of economy. This book, unlike other introduces achievement and the entire life of Theseus, the founder economic books for children which simply deliver economic of Athens. The young Theseus leaves for Athens with the token left information or principles, enables readers to understand the entire by father and King of Athens, Aegeus. He, who wants to become a economic flow including economic activities, jobs, barter, market hero like Hercules, wins over many enemies in the trip to earn the and currency. The volume 1 is comprised of 12 chapters, covering Written by Nikolaus Piper reputation called “a second Hercules” and finally meet his father. Written and Illustrated by Sun-gyu Jin Illustrated by Dong-geun Song economy in the ancient times and medieval times, from invention But the pleasure is short. Theseus decides to risk his life to fight of agriculture, the first economic activity in the human history, to with Minotaur, the monster who has bullied Aegeus. invention of machines, which changed people’s economic activities entirely from then on. More in-depth background information is Ages 9+ / 92pp / 188x255mm / June 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-94629-42-1 added with many photos and interesting economic facts.

Ages 9+ / 192pp / 188x257mm / November 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-6548-083-9

The first book has published among total three books.

20 new for 2012 ■ 21 Th e Zoo Picture Book Selected as one of the “Most Beautiful Books in Switzerland” I went to the zoo with mom and dad today. We went to the gorilla’s house and to the bear’s hills. We also went to the hippo’s swimming pool, the elephant’s palace and the giraff e’s village. We even visited the water bird’s cage and the monkey’s world. Th e zoo is truly an exciting place to be! Mom and dad, you guys had fun,

too, didn’t you? While the child is having fun with the animals at Written and Illustrated by Suzy Lee the zoo, mom and dad were panicked as they fi nd that the child has wandered away. This original picture book offers amusement a s well as refreshment as the child imaginary space overlaps the reality of the adult world.

Rights sold: U.S, Taiwan, France, Spain, Switzerland

Ages 3+ / 32pp / 293x230mm / 2004 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0047-0

Picture book ■ 23 My Myung-won Art Studio My Treasure Number One Tino If I am to become a great painter, I must meet a real one! What can I give her to get her attention?

In first person, the author tells the story of her own childhood in A boy called Young-soo gives his favorite dinosaur Tino to his plain and candid language. Frequenting an art studio where she girl friend Grimm in order to get her attention. But unexpectedly, meets a real painter, the narrator learns about the proper way to Grimm screams and runs as soon as she sees Tino. Young-soo appreciate art and to paint. The tingly sensation she gets when she decides to decorate Tino in pink and give it to Grimm. Grimm is receives a hand-painted birthday card from the real painter makes finally satisfied and puts on a big smile. her all the more serious about becoming a great painter. Even A child’s hope to become good friends with another is depicted though a fire takes away the studio and the real painter one day, with warmth and charm. Simple and broad black lines with the painter’s work leaves a deep and long-lasting impression on the cheerfully vivid oil pastel colors bestow upon the readers a strong narrator. impression.

Ages 7+ / 52pp / 180x230mm / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0160-6 Rights sold: U.S Written and Illustrated by Suzy Lee Ages 4+ / 32pp / 240x310mm / 2003 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0034-0 Written and Illustrated by Young-soo Kim

24 picture book ■ 25 If I Became a Real Tree The Mouth Told the Bum A little sprout’s dream and hope is delivered with a poetic Be kind to your bum! fancy in the lift-the-flap picture book The mouth was ashamed to be a part of the same body with the The little sprout just born from a seed wants to become a big tree bum, since all it did was poop or fart. The mouth was proud to have like an oak tree. ‘How great it would be if I became a real tree.’ the eyes, nose, hands and feet as friends, but looked down on the The sprout tells what it wants to do as a big tree in cheerful and bum, saying how dirty it was until one day, the bum miraculously rhythmical poetic words. The sprout would like to sing a lullaby disappeared. Imagine how the mouth would have felt especially to a lonely deer; lend its branches to birds for their nests; bloom since it had just stuffed itself with food. The stomach began pretty flowers to fill the world with fragrance; cast a big shade for growling and roaring. What do you think happened to the body Written and Illustrated by Jin-Cheol Kim kids’ picnic; produce abundant appetizing fruits; talk with stars in after the bum disappeared? the sky all night; and make a wonderful forest putting arms around The bum is a very important part of our body that forces all the friend trees’ shoulders. It joyfully sings about happiness of sharing waste and feces out of our system. The poor mouth hadn’t realized Written and Illustrated by Kyung-hyo Park with animals and people and hope of living along with the nature, the importance of the bum that quietly did its job. Try to think of instead of self-absorbed joy. As repeating “If I became a tree, if all the organs of your body and the importance of what they do. *60,000 copies sold I became a real tree,” the story is read like a poem full of pure This book won Gold Dokkebi Award 2008. imagination and warm innocence. This book won Gold Dokkebi Ages 6+ / 36pp / 202x230mm / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0158-3 Award 2010.

Ages 4+ / 36pp / 245x228mm / 2010 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0162-0

26 picture book ■ 27 The Old Lady with a Bent-Back Unsinging Piano Old lady, why are you bowing to us? “What if music disappeared in the world?”

The old lady with a bent-back walks along the curvy road, bowing Kot-byul feels depressed whenever she enters into the piano studio. to every plant, animal and person she meets. Why? Because she is Mom is always busy with cello practice and concerts, Dad is busy thankful that her husband was cured of his illness. She is thankful at his work, and her sister is so into singing: no one plays with for the chatty children and for the cosmos flowers that waved Kot-byul, and instead, everyone tells her to play the piano. Feeling when the wind blew. She is even thankful that the chickens are like being left alone, she makes a wish “I wish this stupid music Written by Ki-taek Kim feeding well. An amazing spectrum of background colors are used disappears in the world.” And her wish comes true! Piano does Illustrated by Hye-won Yum to show the old lady’s one-day journey from sun-up to sun-down. not make any sound, either Mom’s cello. Her sister’s choir is gone. And the subtle contrast of light adds dimension to the expression Canary does not sing. Even at Kot-byul’s birthday party, no happy on the face of each person, animal and object. It is as if we can feel birthday song is sung. Once music disappears, the entire house the light, wind and temperature as well as the old lady’s warm and becomes silent and laughs disappear, too. Having worried if Mom’s caring heart. concert is ruined, Kot-byul explains to Mom and Dad why music disappeared. Luckily, her birthday wish to revive music is fulfilled. Written by Myung-wha Chung Ages 5+ / 36pp / 281x211mm / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0159-0 Illustrated by Jee-hye Kim After realizing value of music, Kot-byul makes a wish once again: “Please let music not disappear forever.” This story written by Myung-ha Chung, who is globally renowned cellist.

Ages 4+ / 44pp / 225x285mm / 2010 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0163-7

28 picture book ■ 29 God Loves to Bathe Mommy’s Travel Purse A bizarre fantasy about a rainy day Yikes! My purse! Have you seen my pink purse?

Children’s imagination run wild on stormy days as rain shower and This picture book lets readers learn about Mexican culture through thunder hit the window sill. This fun lift-a-flap book captures their a family’s trip to Mexico. We were in Mexico for a family vacation imagination. Natural phenomena, such as rain, cloud, thunder when we found out that Mom lost her purse with all of our and lightning, fog and rainbow are all cleverly and humorously passports inside! We went to the painter lady Frieda Kahlo’s house described as resulting from God taking a bath. On thunderous and even to her grave. But the purse was nowhere to be found! We days, the author’s daughter would become scared and the author didn’t know what to do. Do you think we ever made it back home? Written and Illustrated by Hyun-kyung Seon would personify the various natural phenomena calling them Mr. Readers will automatically learn about Mexican culture including Cloud, Mr. Thunder, etc. They would talk about why the sky would its food, tourist attractions and traditional fashion through a fun cause such a racket. Sophisticated, yet unique collages and flaps of story laden with colorful illustrations. various sizes allow for a more exciting reading experience. Lift small Ages 6+ / 32pp / 281x211mm / 2008 / Full Color / ISBN 978-89-491-0157-6 flaps to discover hidden critters, or open big flaps to expose extra Written by Pyung Kim Illustrated by Hye-sun Song pages of fun.

Ages 4+ / 32pp / 227x318mm / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0156-9

30 picture book ■ 31 The Black Bean Bug The Hole An adorable picture book stimulates the readers’ senses with “What is in the hole?” poetic words This picture book helps children learn Korean by playing a game Have you ever seen a small black bean bug? If you give it a nudge as ‘putting words together end to end’ using flaps to make it fun. it crawls by, it will curl up into a tiny ball as if it is not even a bug. A silkworm in the hole, a toad seeing a silkworm, a broomstick I’m no crawler, I’m a ball, it’ll say. The book follows a black bean carrying a toad, a rainbow over the broomstick, an owl under the bug through the course of a day and tells its adventures in fun and rainbow, a watermelon in the owl’s eye. tantalizing words. The words seem like poetry, warm and innocent. If children repeat the text they can learn the words including Collages of beautiful quilt works are also impressive. Made from ‘u’ sounds because ‘u’ sounds hide in the every repeated words real fabric, the quilts form the backdrop of each scene offering and also in the sequence of Korean consonants. And unrelated plenty for your eyes. The funny faces and movements that the black words such as ‘owl’ and ‘watermelon’, ‘umbrella’ and ‘die’ and so Written by Seung-ho Choi Illustrated by Jung-taek Oh bean bug makes are full of personality. See for yourself how the on are connected so naturally, which makes new and extravagant texture and color of fabric bring the black bean bug alive. Study Written by Mi-hye Kim imaginations. Polished and sensible design and the flaps push up Illustrated by Hae-nam Park carefully how the movements of the toes, eyeballs and antennas as the joy of reading this book. well as goat poop and flowerbeds are depicted. Ages 3+ / 40pp / 202x207mm / 2007 / Full Color / ISBN 978-89-491-8143-1 Ages 2+ / 36pp / 190x240mm / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-8145-5

32 picture book ■ 33 All Are Mine! Give Me Back My Shell! Toys, the teacher and all are mine! I will play alone! Have you seen my shell? Give me back my shell!

This book describes, with humorous and playful illustrations, how a “Have you seen my shell?” “Haven’t you seen it?” asks the shell- greedy kid who wants to keep all the toys and the teacher to herself less shellfish. The cute little shellfish is desperate to get its shell changes to get along with friends and communicate with them. back. But the animal friends just go about their business without The separation between the world around the greedy child and the an answer. The otter has made an ocarina out of the shell, and world where other friends are playing is expressed as a picture with the shrimp is taking a bath in it. The elephant seal is using it as an a big hole clipped. The hole is big at first but is getting smaller. In umbrella. In this book, readers will find shells of all kinds and sizes. this way, it visibly shows that the greedy kid is getting more stuck And if they look carefully, they will also find the shell of the poor in her own world and that she builds barriers with friends. The shell-less shellfish. It is disguised as a lighting fixture or the center Written and Illustrated by Ji-hye Jung illustration uses collage technique cutting paper clips of various of a bike wheel. It can be found in a picture frame posing as a Written by Seung-ho Choi patterns and attaching them on drawings painted with coloring picture. The simultaneous acts of reading about the animal friends Illustrated by Jung-joo Yoon pens and crayons. It looks very real and lively. and looking for the shellfish’s lost shell stimulate the readers’ imagination. Ages 2+ / 32pp / 197x207mm / 2009 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-8148-6 Ages 4+ / 32pp / 218x233mm / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0161-3

34 picture book ■ 35 I Like Cars / I Like Stars Let’s Put on Clothes, Ta-da This book illustrates clothes changing as playing peek-a-boo, a game that babies like. It Brown’s poetry brought to new life by Korean illustrator’s helps babies to accept the clothes wearing as an easy and interesting activity. Flapped original artwork pages allow babies can flip and see the hided body parts. The illustration using textile collage expresses the texture of fabrics delicately. This book beautifully combines the renowned American Written by Eun-jung Jung / Illustrated by Hae-nam Park writer’s easy-to-read poems that are rich with vibrant imagery with whimsical artwork from brilliant Korean illustrator. Here Holding the Spoon and Yum, Yum! repetition of the phrase “I like” serves to deliver a warm-hearted, child’s-eye view of the wonderful things surrounding youngsters. “Ding-ga, Ding-ga, Spoon, Follow me.” “Yes, yes.” “Lulu-lala, Cup, follow me.” “Yes, yes.” “I Like Cars” is a playful list of vehicles that interest the narrator, While seeing funny faces and cute actions of cups, bowls and spoons coming out like a choo-choo train, babies, even those who hate to eat, start to play eating with utensil such as cars, ships, and trains. It succeed in entrancing toddlers friends. and stimulating their curiosity by carefully presenting, one by one, Written by Eun-jung Jung / Illustrated by Jin-ju Shin things they are familiar with and thus likable. Brown’s characteristic phrases consisted of brief words and plenty of rhyme, rhythm and Happy Birthday, Phh repetition invite readers to repeat after over and over or even to sing along! The book is an illustration of real life practices so babies can learn how to call each family member while having fun to play candle blowing that babies like. Family members come Ages 3+ / 28pp / 262x300mm / 2006 / Full color one by one, and sentences in the similar styles are repeated, so babies can practice speaking ISBN 978-89-491-8122-6, 978-89-491-8123-3 repeatedly. Written by Eun-jung Jung / Illustrated by Jin-ah Lee Written by Margaret Wise Brown Illustrated by Jin-wha Kim, Hae-nam Park Ages 2+ / 21pp / 188x189mm (board-book) / 2009 / Full Color ISBN 978-89-491-8150-9, 978-89-491-8151-6, 978-89-491-8152-3

36 picture book ■ 37 When I’m alone Hush Hush Red Choo Choo Written by Hye-min Kim Written by Chun-hyo Kim Illustrated by Mi-ja Cho Illustrated by Eun-hee Baek Learn about the Korean alphabet through exciting stories Delicate and fantastic pictures A fun struggle between This picture book is ingeniously designed to teach the Korean full of detailed images a father and a child Alphabet to children. It is a story about a train that travels to Ages 5+ / 28pp / 226x260mm / 2003 Ages 3+ / 32pp / 285x215mm / 2003 several places. This anthropomorphic train chugs by the woods, Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0033-3 Rights sold: China Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0046-3 crosses bridges, passes through long and dark tunnels, and runs across the wide green land until the sun sets. Expressive use of color Red Button and characteristic shape of objects address the train’s emotional Rights sold: China experiences. And the use of lines and color in each double-page spread also suggests movement and connections between objects. In particular, the line of the railroad indicates traces of the train’s Alligator’s ABC adventure and the passage from one page to another. What’s Going Who’s Laughing? on Today? Written by Seung-ho Choi Illustrated by Jung-joo Yoon Rights sold: Japan Written by Eun-jung Jung Illustrated by Sung-ji Hong Written and Illustrated by Eun-young Park Hahaha, giggle, giggle. Mommy always Ages 3+ / 32pp / 250x250mm / 1997 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0011-1 with you Makes you think about the Let’s find out who’s laughing! true meaning of a present Ages 3+ / 32pp / 210x210mm / 2003 Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0032-6 Ages 2+ / 36pp / 230x280mm / 2002 Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0021-0

38 picture book ■ 39 The Seven Friends in The Curious Wall Scroll a Lady’s Chamber Criticizes man’s greed through a humorous satire

A Korean classic in a picture book This is a picture book based on one of many folktales about Jun Woochi. Han Ja-Kyung who was barely making a living from the The setting of this story is a Lady’s Chamber where a young lady wall scroll given to him by Jun Woochi is intrigued by the news sews clothes. The Lady has seven friends for her needlework: they that a ninety thousand pyung land is on sale for only one hundred are Mrs. Ruler, Miss Scissors, Miss Needle, Maid Thread, Grandma nyangs. His greed brings about a calamity. With Jun Woochi Written and Illustrated by Young-kyung Lee Thimble, Miss In-du (a little iron with a long handle), and Maid as the scholarly wizard helping the good people with his magic, Iron. When the Lady dozes off one day, the seven friends argue the Curious Wall Scroll shows the virtuous and genuine life and about who is the best part of sewing. As their arguments became spirit that our ancestors led. Moreover, witty details and charming Written and Illustrated by Young-Kyung Lee louder and louder, their landlady awakens and becomes angry, remarks combined with humorous pictures make reading this book declaring “I am the most important part of needlework.” Soon the a delightful experience. Lady falls asleep again and has a dream in which in trying to do her needlework, she couldn’t find any of her seven friends. Feeling sad Rights sold: U.S, Japan

she bursts into tears and is awakened by her seven friends. At last, Ages 5+ / 32pp / 280x270mm / 2002 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0030-2 they all realize that all of them make sewing possible, and that they cannot carry out the needlework without the help of friends.

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Ages 6+ / 32pp / 320x230mm / 1998 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0020-3

40 picture book ■ 41 The White Mouse Story Rabbit and Turtle Human soul is metaphorically compared to a white mouse in Rabbit’s wits save its own life. this Korean folk tale The Dragon King of the sea world became ill. To cure his illness, his One day when Gramps is taking a nap, a white mouse scurries out doctor said, the King must have the liver of a rabbit. Loyal servant, of his nostrils. Granny is so fascinated that she decides to follow Turtle volunteered himself to go on to the land so it would get the the mouse. The mouse sweeps across the village and through rabbit’s liver. Turtle succeeded to lure the Rabbit under the sea by the rice paddies. It feeds on some cow dung and hides in a hole. promising a high-ranking position and wealth at the sea world. Granny thinks that the mouse has found somewhere comfortable, After the Rabbit found it was a lie, the Rabbit responded wittily Written by Chul-moon Jang Illustrated by Mi-sook Yoon so she comes back home to sew. But the mouse reappears and goes enough that it left its liver on the land. And it promised to give it to back into Gramps, nostrils. Gramps tells Granny what he saw in the King as soon as the Turtle would take it back to the land. The his dream. When they realize that the dream coincides with what King and other servants were fooled by the Rabbit and decided Granny saw the mouse do, they decide to go back to where the to let the turtle take it onto the land……. This Korean folk tale

mouse has been. When they dig near the hole, they find loads of passed down orally for generations was so popular that over 120 Written by Seok-je Sung gold. They become rich and live happily ever after. versions of the story were published. This book reconstructs the Illustrated by Mi-sook Yun story with satire and humor, and illustration with delicate print Rights sold: Japan and colorful collage adds up liveliness ad fun of the story. Ages 4+ / 36pp / 281x211mm / 2006 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0119-4 Ages 6+ / 44pp / 226x280mm / 2010 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0125-5

42 picture book ■ 43 Princess Bari Gyun-woo & Jick-nyo Based on an old Korean folk tale. Princess Bari ventures to A heart breaking love story about Gyun-woo and Jick-nyo search for a cure to save her parents The ‘Gyun-woo and Jick-nyo’ folk tale is a sad love story about the Once upon a time, a king and a queen had six princesses brought Gyun-woo Star(Altair in the Aquila) and the Jick-nyo Star(Vega up most delicately yet no prince. When the queen bore another in the Lyre) apart from each other at the far east and the far west child in her womb, they wished it to be a boy. But the seventh of the Milky Way. In the heaven world, Gyun-woo, the cattleman, child turned out to be a princess. The king and the queen, greatly and Jick-nyo, the weaver, were blinded by love and did not work. disappointed, abandoned the princess. Few years later, the king The king in the heaven was furious at them, so he punished them came down with a sickness which could only be cured with the by separating and allowing them to meet only once a year at the

Written by Seung-hee Kim / Illustrated by Jung-in Choi medicine from the world of the dead. As none of six princesses seventh day of July. As like Gyun-woo and Jick-nyo in this story, the agreed to go to the world of the dead to fetch the medicine, they Gyun-woo Star and the Jick-nyo Star are one of the brightest stars

found the seventh princess whom they had abandoned, and asked in summer and look like they meet once a year. The illustration of Written by Hyang-yi Kim her for the favor. The abandoned princess was thankful to the various structures, splendid colors and thin and soft curvy lines Illustrated by Jung-in Choi king and the queen for merely bringing her into this world. So gives a sense of nostalgia and fantasy and is a perfect fit to express she embarks on an adventure into the world of the dead to get the the passionate love and the delicate sadness of Gyun-woo and Jick- medicine for the king. nyo.

Rights sold: France Ages 6+ / 44pp / 235x350mm / 2009 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0123-1

Ages 5+ / 48pp / 258x255mm / 2006 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0120-0

44 picture book ■ 45 The Story of the Uh-Chuh-Goony Shim Cheong How uh-chuh-goonies came to stand on top of roofs The famous story of Shim Cheong, filial daughter, meets quality pictures An uh-chuh-goony is a small sculpture that stands in groups on four corners of palace roofs. It originated from a traditional Shim Cheong lost her mother when she was born; and her blind practice of putting soldiers on roofs in order to keep ghosts away. father had to go begging for milk for Cheong. She had grown into a Since the uh-chuh-goonies were making so much trouble in the beautiful wise girl, and worked hard to take care of her father. One heavens, the king of heavens ordered them to be arrested. He says day, her father was crossing a stream when he happened to fall into he would forgive them if they catch and bring back a mean and it. He was saved by a monk who later said Mr. Shim could open his Written and Illustrated by Yeon-Chul Park scary ghost named ‘Son’. After much thought, they come up with eyes if he offered 300 sacks of rice to the Buddhist temple. Having

a good way to catch Son. They decide to make Son look at his own heard it, Cheong sold herself to seamen in exchange of 300 sacks Written by Eun-sil Yoo face, and then tie his hands with a rope made from a kalopanax of rice and threw herself into In-dang Sea for the safe sailing of the Illustrated by Sun-joo Hong tree which is supposed to paralyze ghosts. But this fails because seamen. But Cheong did not die and was given a new life by the cunning Son-haeng-ja who made the rope has mixed some angelica King of Heaven. Later Cheong became the queen of the country, tree……. and finally met her father.

Rights sold: Japan Ages 6+ / 40pp / 250x245mm / 2010 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0127-9

Ages 5+ / 32pp / 270x230mm / 2006 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0153-8

46 picture book ■ 47 Half Man Sweet Water Hill Adventure of Half man, a brave and wise boy born with only Gurgle. Gurgle. Sweet water, sweet water. Come out! a half of the body One nice young lumberman was living happily with his mother. Once upon a time, a couple had three boys including the youngest One day, he accidently found a fountain that produced sweet boy, Halfy - a half man with one eye, one ear, one arm and one leg. water. The water was not any ordinary water: cold as ice, sweet as When Half man followed two brothers’ trip to Seoul, the brothers wild grapes, fragrant as peppermint. After having drunk the sweet wanted to remove him so badly that they tied him up with a rock, water, he became greedier and greedier to start selling the water and a tree, and then throw him to a tiger’s den. But Half man was a to neighbors for money. Then he became so busy earning money strong, wise boy. Grunting to gather strengths from his body, Half and neglected his mother whom he used to take care of with all his Written by Joong-ae So man could easily free himself from the tie and killed all tigers with heart. The only thing he thought about was money. ‘Right. If I dig Illustrated by Jung-taek Oh bare hands. He got much tiger leather but he was smart enough to the fountain even deeper with a pickax, I will get more sweet water.’ keep it safe from a rich man who tried to steal it. He married to a The young man dag and dag the fountain, but the sweet water only Written by Hyun-ju Lee beautiful wife and lived happily ever after. Story of “Half Man” is disappeared deep into the ground. The story, based on an old tale Illustrated by Hee-jin Song a symbol of a man with immature body and mind suffering from transmitted in a Korean country town, gives a lesson that too much hardships and difficulties to grow up into a mature man with greed kills off what you have now. strength and wisdom. Ages 6+ / 40pp / 267x235mm / 2010 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0124-8 Ages 5+ / 36pp / 238x288mm / 2010 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0126-2

48 picture book ■ 49 The Good Brothers A Lazy Man Who Becomes a Cow You first! No, you first! Warm story about the brothers on Korean folk tale about a lazy man who turned into a cow and good terms his regret and new resolution

Once upon a time, there lived two brothers who helped each other Long time ago, there lived a lazy man. While his wife worked really for everything. Neighbors called them “The good brothers”. They hard, all that the lazy man did was having food, pooping, taking a farmed together and had a good harvest. After harvest, they stacked nap and snoring. To avoid his wife’s nagging, one day the lazy man up rice stalks which were equally divided to each of the brothers. was wandering the town when he heard from an old man that if he Written by Yong-taek Kim In the middle of night, the big brother secretly moved some of his wore a cow’s head mask, he could make an easy life, taking a rest as Illustrated by Hye-won Yum rice to the younger brother, and the younger brother did the same long as you want. He wore the mask – then, he turned into a cow! Written by Ki-taek Kim for the big brother. The next morning, they found their stack not The lazy man in cow was sold to a farmer at the market and had Illustrated by Kyung-hye Jang reduced. They could not understand why. Days later, they ran into to work so much that he even wished he could die. Suddenly, he each other when they were moving their stacks again. They were thought of what he heard in the past: if he ate a radish, he could deeply moved and hugged each other. After then, they kept helping die! He gobbled up radishes and turned into a man again! He each other and lived happily ever after. The illustrator, who won started to work diligently and lived happily with his wife. Ragazzi Award at 2009 Bologna Children’s Book fair, expresses Ages 6+ / 32pp / 270x242mm / December 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0131-6 warm-feeling.

Ages 6+ / 44pp / 287x224mm / December 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0130-3

50 picture book ■ 51 How to Catch a Tiger Red Bean Porridge Granny Outrageous, yet surefire ways to catch a tiger and the Tiger

Long long time ago, there were tigers everywhere that fed on Korean traditional story reinvented with tasty words and people and animals. But not all the tigers had their way. There were humorous pictures. as many ways to catch a tiger as there were tigers. Want to hear Once upon a time, there was a granny who was growing red beans about them? One old woman from Kangwondo caught a tiger in the mountainous area. One day, a tiger as big as a house came with sour kimchi. Mayflies annoyed a tiger to death by flying in in front of her and asked her to make red bean porridge only for front of its eyes. One drunkard grabbed a tiger’s tail and didn’t let the tiger. If she didn’t, it would eat the granny. While cooking the it go. There are also stories about a widow’s dog that went into a porridge, she was so said thinking she could die. So she cried at tiger’s belly, and a brother and sister who stuck a bugle in a tiger’s Written by Joong-ae So the top of her lungs. Ta-da! A chestnut was crawling, a millstone Illustrated by Jung-han Kim butthole. Brace yourself for the most outrageous ways to catch a was thumping, a rope was creeping, a straw mat was rolling, ji-gae tiger. There are also stories about a widow’s dog that went into a Written and Illustrated by Yun-jeong Lee (A-frame carrier) was staggering to come to the grandma and asked tiger’s belly, and a brother and sister who stuck a bugle in a tiger’s why she was crying. They united their efforts to scare the tiger butthole. Brace yourself for the most outrageous ways to catch a away. It is so fun and thrilled to see each of the five little friends use tiger. their characters and properties to throw the tiger away. Ages 5+ / 36pp / 200x250mm / 2009 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0121-7 Ages 5+ / 36pp / 244x230mm / 2010 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0129-3

52 picture book ■ 53 How the Three Brothers Got Rich The Magic Pot Exciting folk tale about three brothers who got rich with just The Magic Pot will endlessly double whatever you put in it one silver coin Once upon a time, a farmer was tilling his land when he discovered Once upon a time, there were three brothers living with their a round pot. It was a magic pot that endlessly doubled whatever old father. After the father died, the brothers sold off everything you put inside. Thanks to the pot, the farmer became very rich. In the father left to earn three silver coins. They divided three coins that same village lived a greedy rich man who heard the news and equally to each other and went to different directions. With went to the farmer. The rich man insisted that since the land had one silver coin, the oldest son bought a cane and scared away all been his before he sold it to the farmer, the pot that was buried in goblins. Overhearing what the goblins said, he cured illness of the land should be his, too. The rich man took the pot from the Prime Minister’s oldest daughter-that even good doctors had not farmer and kept increasing all of his riches by putting them into been able to cure. The second son bought a drum to scare away all the pot. When he finally got exhausted and fell asleep, his father Written and Illustrated by Soo-ah Lee Written by Hyun-ju Lee Illustrated by Soo-ah Lee wild animals that tried to eat him, and happened to catch a tiger, came into the room. He was looking into the pot wondering what making huge money. The youngest bought jang-gu with which he was inside, when he lost his balance and fell into the pot. Soon, made a tiger dance and earn precious treasures. Three rich brothers the room was full of his fathers. On top of that, in the midst of meet at their hometown again and lived happily ever after. The arguments over who is the real one, the fathers end up breaking the story follows excitingly that three brothers use different talents and pot. properties to overcome crisis wittily. Ages 5+ / 36pp / 237x250mm / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-9129-4 Ages 6+ / 44pp / 226x280mm / January 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0128-6

54 picture book ■ 55 A Red Fan and Bumpy Faced a Blue Fan Old Men Written by Jeong-jin Lim Written by Jeong-jin Lim NONFICTION llustrated by Sung-ji Hong Illustrated by Hyang-han Lim

What will happen to the One day, when the good old lumberjack’s nose? man with a bumpy face went PICTURE BOOK Ages 5+ / 32pp / 237x277mm / 2007 to collect some wood, he got Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-9121-8 lost in the hills……. Ages 5+ / 40pp / 256x235mm / 2007 Full Color / ISBN 978-89-491-9125-6

Let It Live or Rum Tata Let It Die Tum Toot Toot Written by Eun-su Cho Written and Illustrated Illustrated by Seung-ha Yu by Seung-ja Cha

Th is picture book is How three seeds helped a collection of cartoons a young man fi nd a wife based on Korean folk tale Ages 5+ / 36pp / 200x250mm / 2008 Ages 6+ / 52pp / 228x275mm / 2002 Full Color / ISBN 978-89-491-9130-0 Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-0023-4

56 new for 2012 ■ 57 Steve Jobs World Travel of gil-Jun Yu, The life of Steve Jobs, the icon of world-changing innovation Scholar of the Joseon Dynasty

The first children’s book on Steve Jobs since his death. It covers Dreams and thoughts of young men in the Joseon Dynasty the life of Steve Jobs, the icon of innovation that changed the 21 130 years ago who encountered the Western culture for the century, from his geeky young age to his passing away amid grief first time of people across the world. At every page, he in his “trademark” Travel diary narrated by Gil-Jun Yu, a member of Bobingsa (the clothes - black t-shirt and jeans - tells what he aims to realize over Joseon’s first official mission to the U.S.) and the writer of the his lifetime, and how he has changed the world. While following famous “Seoyu Gyeonmun (Observations on Travels in the West)”. his confident and fun stories with interesting pictures, readers Bobingsa was the first Korea world tourists, except to Japan and will naturally learn what he has meant by “Think Different,” “Be a China. But the purpose of their world tour was quite different from pirate,” “The only way to do great work is to love what you do,” and that of these days. They dreamed to make their country stronger by the core value governing his life. learning advanced culture of the West from the tour. At the end, Written by Heun Lee Written by Kyung-wan Nam Illustrated by Won-hee Cho Illustrated by Hee-gun Ahn Rights sold: Japan, China, Thailand, Taiwan the book explains meanings of Bobingsa and Western culture at

Ages 8+ / 40pp / 210x270mm / October 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-8248-3 the time, such as electricity, telex, tram and picture, which were introduced in Joseon after their trip.

Ages 6+ / 48pp / 220x265mm / July 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-8245-2

58 nonfiction picture book ■ 59 Gimjang at Geum-dong’s On the Grandma’s Jesa The warm scenes of gimjang to describe taste and culture of The scene of Grandma’s Jesa to teach meaning and procedures kimchi of jesa

Gimjang is an event for making kimchi in large quantities so that Jesa is a ceremony to the ancestors, being commonly practiced in it may be stored and eaten during the winter. Since kimchi is the Korea. It is usually held on the anniversary of the ancestor’s death. most basic side dish in Korean dining, this is considered a major A touching story of little Minsu who is missing the late family event in preparation for the cold season. grandmother teaches meaning, table setting, appropriate way of The story of Geum-dong who visited grandparents’ house in the bow, procedures of jesa. On the Grandma’s jesa, all dispersed family country for gimjang introduces knowledge on kimchi, such as, how members gather to prepare for jesa. The entire family makes Korean to make kimchi, history and origin of the term “kimchi”, scientific food such as jeon and tteok, and set the table carefully, and then principles and culture of kimchi. The appendix explains the origin have jesa with sincere heart. After the event, they sit around and of the term “kimchi” to teach our ancestors’ excellent salting and share the jesa food. Simple but warm pictures inspired by Asian Written by Chun-hee Lee Written by Taru Yoo Illustrated by Hong-mo Kim Illustrated by Kwang-hee Im fermentation technique, and difference between salted foods painting describe roles of jesa to share affection between family in other countries such as sauerkraut, za sai, tsukemono. While members, and illustrate Korean culture in a more lively manner. introducing different types of kimchi of each region and season, Appendices have more detailed and specific information such as the book also tells us scientific principles of storing kimchi. jesa food recipe, special dishes, helping readers learn the traditional jesa custom more thoroughly. Ages 7+ / 36pp / 220x270mm / November 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-8249-0 Ages 6+ / 36pp / 225x260mm / January 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-8243-8

60 nonfiction picture book ■ 61 Wrinkles and Creases “A SEED OF SCIENCE” is a five volume series. Designed to convey scientific ideas for very young children, this series is filled with imaginative pictures, yet it limits itself to easy and simple Wrinkles and creases are all around us. Look for wrinkles and creases in everyday life. sentences. In addition, creativity and knowledge gained from this book is directly applicable in real Think about what they are for and how they work. life, so the readers can approach science more easily and with more fun. Written by Jung-sun Park / Illustrated by Hye-sun Song Ages 2+ / 26pp / 218x218mm(board-book) / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-5173-1 Big and Small Open! Door As the book follows everyday activities of the brothers from saying hello to guests, measuring each other’s height, it allows readers to experience the concept of ‘big and Learn all about doors and the principles behind them through a fun picture book. Many small’ in various settings such as area, volume, height and voice. doors, including car doors, automatic doors and sliding doors are shown to help the Written by Jung-sun Park / Illustrated by Young-soo Kim readers understand naturally the principles behind doors. Ages 3+ / 28pp / 197x237mm / 2009 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-5174-8 Written by Jung-sun Park and Illustrated by Suzy Lee Ages 3+ / 28pp / 217x267mm / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-5171-7 What Colors Say A Piece of Paper You can find many facts just by looking their colors. This book explains that colors say about status of objects, health of living things, taste of food, season, time, or even mood of What could you do with a light crispy piece of square paper? Let’s find out all the things people. that we could do with a piece of paper from the sweet and lovable pictures of this book. Written by Jung-sun Park / Illustrated by kyung-hye jang Written by Jung-sun Park / Illustrated by Jung-young Min Ages 3+ / 28pp / 220x202mm / November 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-5175-5 Ages 3+ / 28pp / 263x198mm / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-5172-4

62 nonfiction picture book ■ 63 Greetings from the Tropical Ocean! A Letter from the South Pole Multi-layered ecosystem in the Tropical Ocean and people at The South Pole, where ice, snowstorms, animals and humans the South Pacific all exist in harmony

So-ra has gone for a field trip to Science Research Center at Sori and Byuri receive a letter from their uncle who is a scientist Micronesia in the South Pacific Ocean. She is sending letters to studying about the South Pole at King Sejong Station. His letter friends to introduce the Tropical Ocean and Micronesia friendly contains stories about everyday life at the station and fun facts and cheerfully. So-ra accompanied Tae-yang, Pu-reum and Dr. about the South Pole. The letter also talks about the plants and Tropical Ocean to have interesting experiences. Besides the letters, animals of the South Pole and urges to act now to reduce global explanatory notes are included to give more details. Attachments warming. The author has based this book on his actual experience show pictures of tropical lives taken by experts. This book provides at the South Pole. Readers will learn about the efforts being made children with knowledge about the eco-system and cultural by the scientists at the South Pole and other various facts about the diversity and it instructs about the importance of ocean studies. It area. They will also realize that small steps can save the South Pole Written by Jung-gi Han also enlightens us that we, as all, can save the nature by gathering from disastrous effects of global warming. Written by Jung-gi Han Illustrated by Gi-hoon Yu Illustrated by Young-ah Suh our efforts in the current circumstances where the sea pollution is Ages 8+ / 36pp / 235x285mm / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-8229-2 only getting worse due to the global warming.

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Ages 8+ / 40pp / 235x285mm / 2010 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-8241-4

64 nonfiction picture book ■ 65 Where Do Babies Come From Tell me how boys and girls are diff erent, and how to protect STORY BOOK my precious body

“Where Do Babies Come From?” Th is is one of the MOST asked questions, but for some reason, the LEAST answered one. But this picture book gives young readers an easy and candid answer to it. “I am a Girl, My Brother is a Boy” tells about the gender/sex difference between girls and boys, and women and men. It deals with such problems as social customs, physical difference, and gender roles. I am a Girl, “My Body is Mine” is designed to teach young children how to deal My Brother is a Boy with sexual abusers they might encounter unexpectedly in their everyday lives. the writer delivers the appropriate message that every child’s body is his or her own, so they should respect their bodies.

Rights sold: China My Body is Mine Written and Illustrated by Ji-young Jung and Hye-young Jung Ages 4+ / 40pp / 250x230mm / 1999 / Full color ISBN 978-89-491-0016-6, 978-89-491-0017-3, 978-89-491-0018-0

66 nonfiction picture book ■ 67 Nobody Knows but the Moon Taming Monsters A big disturbance with Why? and Can! monsters that cannot be seen by adults All-forgiving love of a family is depicted in this story of a girl Min-soo goes for a piano lesson today too, and complains as always. But, on his way to the named Song-hwa whose sole guardian is her grandmother lesson, he stops by the grass besides the river and falls asleep for a while. When he opens his eyes, two strange dogs with gold fur are staring Min-soo. But those look weird for a Twelve years old Song-Wha lives with her shaman grandmother dog. “Wh, What are you?” Finally, Min-soo asks bravely, and then the animals answer in a small village. All she wants is to be friend with the trees, the more weirdly, “Why? Can!”. Min-soo names them “Why?” and “Can!”. But they follow flowers and live happily, but the fact that she is a local shaman’s Min-soo to his home and make troubles. What should Min-soo do about the monsters child saddens her. Song-Wha, although she deliberately detaches “Why?” and “Can!” that can only be seen by Min-soo not by adults? herself from the other children, nevertheless whispers her hopes Written by Jin-kyung Kim / Illustrated by Hee-jin Song and grief to the moon in the night sky. One day Song-Wha’s dad Ages 9+ / 68pp / 152x220mm / 2009 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-6124-2 who she thought was dead, shows up suddenly and takes her to Seoul. Song-Wha sees more trouble when grandma quarrels with What on Earth Are You Going to Be? Written by Hyang-yi Kim dad, asking him to remarry. Despite the quarrel, Song-Wha learns Illustrated by Moon-hee Kwon “Teacher, I am disappointed by school. I’m quitting.” the importance of family as she watches grandmother prepare for Da-jung doesn’t want to go to school, because school is boring. You have to learn letters her last prayer for the reunification of the divided Korea. and numbers that you already has learned at kindergarten. Da-jung cannot stand all these. However, whenever Da-jung says she doesn’t want to go to school, Mother says, “What Rights sold: Thailand, France on earth is she going to be?” After Da-jung made an announcement to quit school, her Ages 10+ / 282pp / 148x210mm / 1994 / ISBN 978-89-491-2007-2 teacher started to give her an interesting homework. It seems that learning and getting to know other things than study subjects is also important. This is a very special story of Da- jung who doesn’t like to go to school becoming to like it. Written by Seon-mi Hwang / Illustrated by Hyun-kyung Seon Ages 8+ / 56pp / 152x220mm / 2009 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-6112-9

68 story book ■ 69 Tteok Cafe for Man-bok Young-Mo’s Disappearance Rice ttoek makes your lips sealed and honey ttoek makes you spin out sweet words? A story of young adventurers who hide in the fantasy world called the “Laonzena” Man-bok always says bad words and does bad behaviors, which is different from what he This book is an account of Young-Mo’s friend Byung-Gu’s encounters during the four days has in mind. So his school friends try to avoid him. One day, he accidently discovers an of Young-Mo’s disappearance. Byung-Gu looks everywhere but Young-Mo is nowhere to odd tteok cafe: ‘Tteok Cafe for Man-bok’. The cafe puts very strange price tags on pieces be found. Suddenly, Byung-Gu remembers that Young-Mo used to sit on dark and filthy of tteok! To eat wind tteok, you need to do two nice behaviors. To eat mugwort tteok, stairs leading to the basement of his apartment building with his black cat Hedge. When you need 42 laughs of friends. Man-bok reluctantly started to do nice things. But, ttoek is Byung-Gu finds the cat, Hedge waves his tail and signals him to follow. The cat leads just an excuse. Man-bok has felt upset whenever he said or behaved against his will. Now Byung-Gu into the fantasy land called “Laonzena” meaning land of happiness. This book he shows he changes himself into a warm and tender - just like ttoek - person by himself. won Gold Dokkebi Award 2003. Written by Lily Kim / Illustrated by Seung-hyun Lee Ages 9+ / 44pp / 152x220mm / 2010 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-6134-1 Rights sold: U.S

Written by Ji-hee Gong / Illustrated by Sang Oh Rat Droppings for a Birthday Present Ages 12+ / 204pp / 148x210mm / 2003 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-8019-9 You want me to give my friend rat droppings for his birthday? The Magical Red Lipstick Seung-ho, who finds himself in trouble trying to get a gift for a special friend’s birthday, is the writer of the candid and frank journal entries in this book. When Seung-ho is worried A strange yet fun adventure of Miya who grows up every time she puts on red lipstick sick having lost all of his money in a game, an old lady appears out of nowhere like some Mi-ya has to watch her baby brother, Ho-ya, whenever mom goes to work at the fairy godmother and gives him the seed of happiness. Elements of fantasy such as these department store. Every time Ho-ya makes Mi-ya’s life difficult for her, Mi-ya wishes she draw the readers deep into the story. Vivid illustrations that show Seung-ho’s emotions were a grown-up. Then, one day, she gets her hands on a magic lipstick, and whenever she through various facial and bodily expressions add to the fun of reading. puts it on, she turns into her mom! All children await the day they will be all grown up. Written by Lily Kim / Illustrated by Ih-rang Kim The Magical Red Lipstick utilizes a fun subject matter to express the wishes that any child Ages 9+ / 52pp / 155x220mm / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-6110-5 would have had at one time or another. Written by Ji-hee Gong / Illustrated by Jung-in Choi Ages 10+ / 127pp / 155x220mm / 2008 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-6102-0 70 story book ■ 71 Pluto, a Secret Society 1, 2, 3, 4 An exciting adventure of fi ve children YA FICTION ‘Pluto, a Secret Society’ is a detective story about a group of kids in a secret society named Pluto, investigating a murder case that took place in their village. Woo-jin is as naughty as a fi ft h-grade boy can be. He meets Kum-sook, the new student from Seoul, at Dong- young’s birthday party. The three decide to form a secret society named Pluto and pledge their lives to justice. Pluto, the name of the king of the netherworld, is also the name of the cat in Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’. One day, the night before the village fair, there is a murder in the container building within the construction yard. Taking interest in the case, Pluto finds out who went into the container building on the night of the murder. Putting their heads together, they even fi nd out that the murder has something Written by Jung-gi Han to do with the pottery artifact. Finally, they head to the village hill, Illustrated by Gi-hoon Yu in order to fi nd the artifact. Th is book won Gold Dokkebi Award 2005.

Ages 10+ / 300pp / 148x210mm / September 2011 / Full color ISBN 978-89-491-2100-0, 978-89-491-8032-8, 978-89-491-2119-2, 978-89-491-2134-5

72 Story book ■ 73 Hiking Girls Why Are We Only Seventeen Two problem children travel the Silk Road by foot, finding their true selves Three 17 year old girls who wanted to be a butterfly to fly away This book tells the story of two girls whose lives are full of unanswered questions. One girl Around 1988, story of three country girls’ movement to Seoul. Komsae, Kangsae, has been detained once for hitting another child. The other has stolen things to lessen the Koongsae (nicknames) growing up in the country town, could not go to high school pain of being left out at school. The two think about their past, future and family, and grow because of the poverty of each family. They decided to come to Seoul in a hope that they as they walk through the desert in stifling heat. This book won Blue fiction Award 2007. could work at a factory and go to night school at the same time. Not long after they Ages 14+ / 296pp / 133x203mm / 2008 / ISBN 978-89-491-2080-5 moved their jobs to a garment factory, there was a big fire and three girls were suffocated. Unfortunately two girls were died and Soon-ji was the only survivor. Out of shock, she Ninja Girls forgot how to speak again and came back to her country home to recall their short Seoul life. Based on the real fire at a stuffed-doll factory in 1988, the story touches a social issue, Four Ninja Girls’ suspicious and cheeky movement to “follow their dreams” rare subject in Korean teenage novels. Ninja girls are four high school students including Eun-bi who is a fat girl called even Ages 14+ / 292p / 133x203mm / 2010 / ISBN 978-89-491-2096-6 “Gorilla”; Ji-hyung who goes after cute boys; So-ul who is a small but righteous girl; Hye- ji who has a gorgeous looking. These four 17 year old girls plan a suspicious and cheeky Kissing My Life operation to stand up to the school system which is discouraging their dreams. Ages 12+ / 272pp / 133x203mm / 2009 / ISBN 978-89-491-2091-1 It could happen to anyone, and it happened to a regular seventeen-year-old Ha-yeon This book tells the story of a regular seventeen-year-old girl becoming a single parent. It is something that could happen to any teenager around us depicted much candidly and Fantastic Girl realistically. From casual sex with her boyfriend, to pregnancy and to delivery, each and A fantasy novel of 17- year-old girl, who is sent to the future- a decade later from now. every step of her ordeal is vividly told. Subtle details of Ha-yeon’s changing feelings are The self-claimed beauty queen and would-be model has dreamed of a rosy future ahead, tastefully captured. First she panics when she finds out she’s pregnant and then debates but she is very disappointed to see 27-year-old herself humble and insignificant, entirely whether to get an abortion or not. After the delivery she debates whether to keep or give up the baby, and eventually wishes desperately to go back to school. Written by Ok-soo Lee Written by Hye-jung Kim different from what she has imagined she would be. Now, she starts a project to transform her future. Ages 14+ / 260pp / 133x203mm / 2008 / ISBN 978-89-491-2083-6 Ages 14+ / 280pp / 133x203mm / January 2011 / ISBN 978-89-491-2304-2 74 YA fiction ■ 75 Blue Cheetah Is Running Larva Project “Nothing will be better. But I won’t do anything. I have my own rules.” The reality is sewer. But I don’t want to live a blurry life! Gang-ho packs his belongings and runs away from home again for the fourth times to ‘Soo-sun Jung’ is being “exploited” to work at 20,000 won per day in a barbeque work part-time and live in a gas station. In the gas station, he stay with other juvenile restaurant run by father. She is one of the worst students at school. But she had one thing part timers including Ah-mi who has to move around because of her parents’ divorce, to make her happy – writing a novel. One day, she happened to see a post about the Hyo-jin and Gun-woo. They all look like damaged goods but they think about their life writing contest organized by a university. She decided to win the contest to get into the seriously and have ‘rules’ at least about themselves. One day Gang-ho faces with Do-yun university or any university with a literature scholarship. No one cares about her decision who used to be his friend at elementary school. The two people meet in totally different except for her literature teacher, Mu-ski Huh, who volunteered to coach her. This book environments, and try to find an exit from the suffocating life by joining the school band. won Blue fiction Award 2010. This book won Blue fiction Award 2009. Written by Jamiee Lee Ages 14+ / 248pp / 133x203mm / 2009 / ISBN 978-89-491-2094-2 Ages 14+ / 304p / 133x203mm / 2010 / ISBN 978-89-491-2301-1 Juliet Club Here Come the Losers Sweet-bitter chats and all colors of love through a prism of four 17 year old girls They may fall, they may crash, but they never lose heart The protagonist and the first-person narrator, Yoo-mi(a.k.a. Yoom) leads the story with This book is about high school seniors Jae-woon, Ho-chul and Sung-min, who have never an interesting choice of words. She runs a sport kite as a hobby, and her overly-sweet gotten used to competition in this education-centered society and are unlikely to become nature is both the biggest strength and weakness. This nosy girl celebrates her turning anything important once they get out of their technical high school. One summer, these 17 by gathering her best friends at her roof top where they makes a club and shares their losers are forced to work as manual laborers in a hellish site deep in the mountains of concerns and anxieties, and even their sweet and sour love stories. Amid the explosive Kangwon Province. Here the three, neither of whom has any bearing on life, meet various emotions that they have to deal with, without knowing what is the right thing to do, the people with widely different life stories, and come to learn the meaning of life and death, protagonists never give up albeit difficult. individual and society, finding their true selves along the way. This book won Blue fiction Written by Sun-hee Park Ages 12+ / 305p / 133x203mm / 2010 / ISBN 978-89-491-2300-4 Award 2008. Written by Ho-moon Yang Ages 14+ / 356pp / 133x203mm / 2008 / ISBN 978-89-491-2084-3 76 YA fiction ■ 77 Sitting Devil One painting encountered at an empty house holds secrets and truth of a family To Ji-won, a high school sophomore, her grandmother was the only family member she COMIC BOOK had. Aft er grandmother’death, she found secrets behind her birth and raisond’tre. While Ji-won came closer and fi nally opened the door to the adult-made, mystery-fi lled world, her sentiment is delicately described and her desperate search is poetically unfolded: presenting ‘subtle contemplation’ rarely seen in th eteenage literature. Under the big theme of search for oneself or ‘Who am I?’, the writer places problematic but often- encountered issues such as parentless family and confl icts with parents. Written by Min-kyung Kim Ages 14+ / 224p / 133x203mm / 2010 / ISBN 978-89-491-2097-3 Th e Spring Training of My Life A story of fi ft een year olds crashing into the real world head on Winner of the fi rst ‘Saegye Youth Literature Awards’ with a prize of 50 million won. Th e story starts in a small town near Suwon in August 1986. Fift een year old Joon-ho is asked by his friend to arrange a passport and some travel money for the friend’s brother who is a legendary student activist. Joo-ho is supposed to make the delivery in an island on the south coast. Joon-ho intends to travel alone, but Seung-Joo and Jeong-ah from the neighborhood decide to tag along without invitation. Th e journey turns into a mess. Written by You-jung Jung Ages 14+ / 396pp / 133x203mm / 2007 / ISBN 978-89-491-2076-8

78 YA fiction ■ 79 Stop! Chohanji Learning about the world of animals just became as easy and There were two heroes who had competed mastery of the fun as reading a comic book! world!

Jeany is special. She can step into any kind of world through Min-woo Hyung, one of the most internationally renowned her imagination, shout “STOP!” and freeze everything for five cartoonist in Korea, works on ingenious adaptation of Mun-yol minutes, and talk with and make all the animals of the world talk Lee’s 『Chohanji; The story of Cho and Han kingdoms』 into comic too. From backyard cuckoo nests to the lush amazon rainforest, book. The comics 『Chohanji; adds two fictional main characters to Jeany explores the wonderful and fascinating world of animals, take the full advantage of the medium of comics. The two disciples simply by falling into her imagination. But even more is revealed of the wizard, Soo and Mok, are those. They receive the mission and told about the animal kingdom for thanks to Jeany, it is the to observe and assist each of the two heroes, Hang-woo and Yu- animals who do the talking. ‘STOP!’ is a five volume series that bang. The two fictional characters play the role as mentors who captures major topics in animal behavior and ecology, through the encourage, and sometimes criticize, the potential kings. Additions artless eyes of bright and imaginative Jeany. of this sort, such as some element of fantasies, make the work very authentic. 1. How animals live together(Symbiosis and Parasitism) 2. How animals make families(Mating and Reproduction) Ages 9+ / 176pp / 188x255mm / March 2011 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-94629-12-4(set) 3. How animals talk(Signs and Communication) 4. Hunting animals and hunted animals(Predator and Prey) Written by San-ha Kim 5. How animals and humans can live together(Effects of human life on animals) Illustrated by Han-min Kim Written by Mun-yol Lee Rights sold: Thailand, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, Italy Illustrated by Min-woo Hyung

Ages 5+ / 72pp / 190x250mm / 2006 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-491-5183-0(set)

80 comic book ■ 81 Felix is in Love with Money The Yummy Science Tempura I shall become rich on my own! The power of Science facts visible in food

One day, Felix, a twelve-years-old boy, decided to be rich. And Diverse power of science is acting in our daily food. Also, there then, he established a company with peter and Zanna to make exists a world of science revolving around the process of cooking some money. It introduces various events as why he want to earn and eating. This work delivers various scientific knowledge from money, how he want to earn money, how he can earn lot of money biology, geology, chemistry to physics through food. With exciting by the relationship with his friends. It tells not just a general idea of episodes and animated characters, the difficult educational facts money, but the right viewpoint of money and economic knowledge are easily expressed. Cooking battle between DURIGISANG and like friendship and faith. It helps to be a discerning person JUBYUNMOERI! Aliens KKARIBA and AYAYA who came who understands history and politics like German history and to earth to save planet ARIKKARI from malnutrition. This is unification of European economy. Original work of this cartoon is a science comic of laughter and knowledge joined together. The the Nikolaus Piper’s same name novel. book is composed of clear and soft color for the educational tips to stand out in handling the wide range of science knowledge. Written by Nikolaus Piper Ages 9+ / 200pp / 188x255mm / 2010 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-94629-06-3(set) Written by Jin-sub Yem Illustrated by Dong-geun Song Rights sold: Thailand Illustrated by Dong-su Lee

Ages 9+ / 188pp / 188x255mm / 2010 / Full color / ISBN 978-89-94629-34-6(set)

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