Winner of the 2016 Golden Goblin Award! An amazing new work from Jinho Jung, winner of the 2015 Bologna Children's Book Fair Ragazzi Award. A magical picture book that lets us see the world anew through a strange and wondrous world of space. "The Wall" excels in its concept and its ability to convey its theme. Its visual sense is simple, yet nothing needs to be added or removed. With clean, cartoon-like artwork, both the composition and graphics are outstanding. —Judges Hwayoung Park, Hobaek Lee The new picture book "The Wall" by Jinho Jung, winner of the 2016 Golden Goblin Award, has been published by Bir Songso. Jinho Jung is a rising star among Korean picture book creators drawing worldwide attention, having won the Ragazzi Award at the 2015 Bologna International Children's Book Fair. True to his background as an architecture major, Jung reinterprets familiar spaces in "The Wall" in a completely new way. Composed only of straight and curved lines, and the colors yellow and blue, "The Wall" draws us into a magical world of space. Lay "The Wall" flat on the floor and turn the pages one by one—the whole space and its parts naturally take shape in your mind. Simply following the child in the illustrations feels like experiencing virtual reality, sparking a vivid sense of space. Hold "The Wall" open in both hands and bring the pages closer together or spread them further apart, and you can compare how the position and distance of the walls in the pictures seem to change—adding even more fun to the experience. While playing with this book, children naturally absorb concepts of direction and space—front and back, up and down, inside and outside, left and right. "The Wall" awakens children's spatial sense and gives them the joy of imagination, while offering adults an open-hearted, warm perspective on the world. "The wall is a story about inside and outside. Everything has an inside and an outside. It all depends on where we look. What matters most is having a warm perspective that can see all sides together." —Author Jinho Jung The Joy of Exploring a Mysterious World of Space A curious child follows along a wall and discovers a small window. The child looks inside, but somehow ends up looking out. Following the wall, the child moves closer, but ends up farther away instead. This time, the child goes through a door, but ends up outside instead. The child thinks they turned right, but they're going left. The child looks at a window that seems small, and wonders—could it actually be big? Why would a child look at a small window and think it might be big? The picture book "The Wall" captures a world of space that looks different depending on which way you view it. As children follow along with the scenes, they naturally begin to picture the space in their minds. While enjoying the fun of imagining the character's changing positions and directions, children build a sense and understanding of space. It's also wonderful for a child to pick a favorite scene and freely imagine and expand upon the space shown there. By looking closely at the pictures, noticing the changes, and picturing them in their minds, children will enjoy developing spatial perception like a game—using observation, discernment, memory, and imagination along the way. A Magical Picture Book That Helps Us See the World Anew "The Wall" repeatedly shows opposite concepts such as inside and outside, left and right, small and big. These opposites are simple yet clear, easy to grasp at a glance. Yet this remarkable picture book also reveals that the very same picture can be interpreted differently depending on which direction we view it from. Even in the same place, looking from a different angle reveals parts we couldn't see before. And once we notice what we'd been missing, our thinking changes too. "The Wall" will help us see the world with fresh eyes, making our lives feel richer and happier. Sensory Artistry Created with Only Lines and Colors Artist Jinho Jung has translated three-dimensional space onto two-dimensional paper with a remarkably original and sophisticated composition. Using only straight and curved lines to express the parts and the whole of the space, and just two colors—yellow and blue—to show changes in position, the artistic craftsmanship is truly outstanding. The picture book fully captures three-dimensional space within its pages, so that anyone who looks at it immediately envisions a 3D world in their mind. A single, friendly-looking character moves along what might otherwise feel like a cold, hard "wall"...