About this Book

Accompanied by acclaimed artist Lee Man Ik's simple drawings, this volume collects seventeen outstanding stories by the author, who was a pioneer of juvenile literature in Korea. Here, reality and fantasy meet without conflict and even death is portrayed not as something to be shunned and feared but as an occasion for introspection on the joy and peace of eternal life. Consisting of six thematically related anecdotes, this title will be comprehensible even to very young readers. In "The Firebird's Dance" (written after the death of Jun Tae-il, a labor movement activist), one of the most impressing short stories in Korean children's literature, a crane protests against the cruelty of a man who cages it and forces it to "dance" for a fee by hurling itself into fire.--Changbi website.

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