Description Even if you're a scaredy-cat, when it's time to act, you act! When you're still growing in body and mind and trying to understand the world, worry and fear can often keep your feet stuck in place. And if your whole body happens to be made of thin, see-through plastic, even more so. Plastic Glove is the biggest scaredy-cat at Glove Elementary School. Today is the day of the once-a-semester Starlight Camp, and all the glove friends are bursting with excitement to climb Glove Mountain and watch the stars. But Plastic Glove's mind is filled with nothing but worries. 'What if I get blown away by the wind? What if there's a fire on the mountain...?' The worries just keep piling up, one after another. Then, the very thing she feared actually happens. The mischievous Twin Gloves break the only flashlight they have. As the teacher and the glove friends carefully make their way down the dark mountain path, they suddenly tumble off a cliff. Only Plastic Glove, being so light, flutters safely away. "Plastic Glove, it looks like you're the only one who can go get help from the grown-ups!" the teacher calls out desperately. But Plastic Glove is instantly gripped by fear — it feels like something could jump out of the dark forest at any moment. Still, she's the only one who can help her teacher and friends. Can the timid Plastic Glove make it down the mountain alone and bring back a rescue team? "Be Brave, Plastic Glove!" is a picture book that fills the hearts of children who hesitate to act because of worry and fear with warm, bright light. Perhaps the very fact that Plastic Glove manages to do something for her teacher and friends — something she never could have done for herself alone — is itself a light that brightens the world. The Glove Elementary School series portrays children who are each different and each special, and marks the first time author Seolhwa Yoo has written and illustrated a book focused entirely on children, after previously raising thoughtful questions for both children and adults through her picture books. This series began with a request from a child the author met at a lecture: "Please make a picture book about my story too!" After hearing this, the author realized she wanted to capture the lovable qualities of all the children she had met in picture book form. All the characters in this book take the form of gloves. There's the curious Leather Glove, the capable Rubber Glove, the steady Boxing Glove, the diligent Scrubbing Glove, the stylish Lace Glove, the spirited Baseball Glove, the hungry Kitchen Mitt, the mischievous Twin Gloves, and Plastic Glove, who is delicate in both body and heart. Each child's unique personality and talents are represented through a different kind of glove with its own special use. In the previous book, "Well Done, Twin Gloves," the author portrayed a child who was still rough and clumsy at expressing themselves through mitten gloves with four fingers joined together. This time, she portrays a child who is fearful and full of worries through the thin, transparent Plastic Glove. Plastic Glove is so thin that she's easily hurt, but that very transparency also holds infinite possibility within it. When filled with bright light, she can even light up the darkness of the world. "Be Brave, Plastic Glove!" is filled with the author's trust in and support for the boundless possibilities within a child's heart. Just as Plastic Glove filled herself with bright light and floated up to light the way for her friends, we hope this book will brighten the hearts of children who feel frightened and small.