important facts

Description

'The Important Book' by American picture book author Margaret Wise Brown has been redrawn by Korean artist Jae-eun Choi. The original work was published in the United States in 1949 and 1977. The content expresses the most fundamental characteristics of familiar objects such as spoons, apples, and shoes in simple but poetic language. The important fact about a spoon is that you eat with a spoon, the important fact about rain is that it wets and moistens everything, and the important fact about you is that you are you. Whether you agree with the author's opinion or not, this is a book that makes you look at the essence of everyday things you encounter every day from a new angle. The most important fact about apples? It is round. What about spoons? It means eating. What about shoes? It means wearing them. If the most important fact about apples is that they are round like a ball, why is the most important fact about grass is that they are green? Also, an important fact about snow and daisies: Why are they white? Margaret Wise Brown captures the spoon-likeness of a spoon, the round shape of an apple, and the movement of the wind, making surprising discoveries about things that are all too common. The important fact of the picture book 'Important Facts' is that it allows children to talk about important facts about the sun, the moon, wind, rain, bugs, bees, chairs, pencils, bears, rainbows, cats, whatever they want. will be. In other words, the story about important facts continues long after the last chapter of the book has been turned. Brown expresses important facts about familiar things such as rain, wind, apples, and daisies in rhythmic language. 'Important Facts' is a perfect book that gives children the joy of new discoveries through fun writing like a word game. -Amazon.com reviews

■ Characteristics of the book: Rhythmic sentences, like word play. Margaret Wise Brown expresses important facts about everyday things in a surprisingly new way with easy and concise sentences. In Choi Jae-eun's paintings, which give off a surreal atmosphere, such as Magritte's flying spoons, windows floating in the sky, and a view outside a window showing two landscapes, traces of Magritte, his favorite painter, can be found everywhere. The journey to 'important facts' that begins with looking out the window where Daisy is. The journey to 'important facts' that begins with a spoon, contains a journey back home after eating a piece of apple in a small house on a snowy hill. Daisy outside the window beyond the spoon, picture book on the daisy flower field, rainy street in the picture book, grass beyond the rain, snowy hill visible beyond the grass, apple in the small house on the hill, wind shaking the small house, sky where the wind stays, walking on the sky road You are looking at the shoes that are there and the ‘important facts.’ The most important fact is that you are you. In the past, you were a baby, and you have grown up so well that you are now a child, and there is no doubt that you will grow up to become an adult. By looking at the mirror in a picture book, readers can feel anew how important it is that ‘I am myself’. Author Choi Jae-eun has hidden the fairy tale characters that readers meet as they grow up like jewels, including the three bears, the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, the Three Little Pigs and the Wolf, the Snow Queen, Mary Poppin, and Puss in Boots. The main characters in fairy tales are the most important friends for growing readers and a small gift from the picture book author. Our Important Facts 'Important Facts' are rhythmic and repetitive sentences that are often used as textbooks in American classes. Children read and talk about Margaret Wise Brown's 'Important Facts' together, then capture objects that are meaningful to them and talk about those important facts in writing and pictures.