Description: The moving experience of reading anew what could not be read under the norms of its time — Anthony Browne's My Dad returns in a revised edition, 18 years after its first publication in Korea. Anthony Browne's picture book My Dad has been released in a revised edition. First published in the UK in 2000, the book was praised as "a rare work in which a father is involved in raising and nurturing his children" (BookPage, 2001). The following year, in 2001, it was introduced to Korean readers in translation, both as part of a collection and as a standalone volume (published as My Dad Is the Best, Kinderland). Fourteen years before My Dad was published, in 1986, Anthony Browne had already explored feminist themes with readers through Piggybook. Shortly after My Dad was released, in an interview with The Guardian, he revealed that he had spent a very long time deliberating before publishing this book: "I wanted to create a positive book about 'fathers.' But for a very long time, I couldn't find the right way to do it" (The Guardian, 2000). While the author was concerned that My Dad might be read as just another tale of male heroism, for Korean readers living through the 2000s, the book could only be read as one that showed "a father worn down and exhausted by a hard life," encouraging readers to "try expressing gratitude to such a father" (Busan Ilbo, 2009). At the time of its original publication in the early 2000s, Korean society—lacking a proper safety net and having just endured the IMF financial crisis—was swept by the belief that family was all one could truly rely on. The social expectation that supporting the family was the father's role was so pervasive that the children's song 'Cheer Up, Dad' (lyrics by Kwon Yeon-sun, music by Han Su-seong) became an anthem of comfort for ordinary people during that era. However, thanks to today's generation of women in their 30s and 40s—many of whom grew up watching mothers endure long years of hardship under a patriarchal system disguised in the language of compassion—who have come to lead cultural discourse in the 2000s, cracks have begun to appear in that once-solid wall. Let's take a closer look at My Dad in its revised edition. In the corner of the scene where Dad scolds the wolf, Little Red Riding Hood watches everything unfold. Beside Dad as he dances, a figure keeping rhythm with him cannot be confined to a single gender. Readers will gradually discover meanings like these—once obscured by the norms of an earlier era—hidden throughout the book.