Description: An expanding imagination that starts from a single strand of hair! The power of character that leaps far beyond narrative! Following A Sea of Tears and It Got Big!, this is the third picture book from author Seo Hyun, creator of the beloved A Sea of Tears. Seo Hyun has won the hearts of many readers with picture books that capture children's feelings, offering empathy and healing. In Tickle Tickle, the strengths that made her earlier books so cathartic — stories pitched perfectly to a child's eye level, openly expressing emotions and desires — evolve into something even more delightfully fun. Starting from a single strand of hair, the imagination expands into vivid characters, bouncing movements and sounds, and a full ensemble dance that grabs your attention instantly. Oh yeah! Read the picture book and dance along! On the cover, a child with a yellow face holds a single strand of hair. A few strands hang down from the round, cute-eyed yellow face. Tickle tickle? What could be so itchy? Turning the cover to the title page, you'll see squiggly dotted lines curling out from the head. You're not quite sure what it is, but it does seem itchy. The story begins with scratching an itchy head. Without thinking, the child scratches an itchy head, and a strand of hair falls out and becomes another 'me.' The original 'me' and the newly created 'me's — seven children in all — slowly begin to dance. At first, dancing, they go to Mom, to Dad, to their older sister, rushing in mischievously, begging to play, and pulling pranks. Even after filling the house with all this commotion, the urge to play still isn't satisfied. So 'I' and all the 'me's head out of the house together. Once outside, the movements grow bigger and the range of action widens. They hop and skip, ride a bus far, far away, climb a mountain, and even fly through the sky with the help of birds. Sharp-eyed readers might notice that only the 'real me' keeps its eyes wide open the whole time. Wherever the child and the 'me's go, a trail of joy is left behind. Everyone and everything the child meets catches the rhythm and starts dancing too — the people they hopped past, the bus that carried them far away, even the mountain that had just been watching wide-eyed now dances. An octopus met in the middle of the ocean even tosses the children back onto land with a whirl and a plop. The child's raw, joyful energy spreads everywhere. While dancing merrily, uh oh — the head gets itchy again. Scratching hard, another 'me' appears. Scratch again, and countless more 'me's appear. Now it's time for a grand group dance. Joy bubbles up for no particular reason — the delight of being fully absorbed in the moment, and the vitality felt after a good, wild play. In that instant of total immersion, Oh yeah! It feels refreshing. Tickle Tickle shows off a bold new style, revealing the potential for a picture book to be carried from start to finish purely by the power of its character, leaping far beyond traditional narrative. A picture book you read with your whole body — long after you close it, the joyful tickle lingers! Tickle Tickle is a picture book meant to be read with all your senses and your whole body. Just hearing the word 'tickle tickle' somehow makes you feel itchy somewhere. An enthusiastic reader might even find themselves scratching their head. When the wiggly dancing starts, you might feel your hips start to shake too. The joyful feeling grows bigger and bigger as the child goes farther out, farther away, and higher up. When the child shouts 'Yahoo~,' that excited feeling bursts out as sound. The rising emotion is also delicately expressed through changes in the lettering. The letters grow bigger or smaller depending on the mood, and sometimes ride along like waves. As the emotions build, the lettering becomes bolder and more dramatic. In the scene where the child shouts 'Oh yeah!,' huge pink letters burst onto the page. In the scene where countless 'me's scratch their heads, the word 'scratch scratch scratch' repeats endlessly. The letters no longer look like shapes — they feel like sounds. After happily losing yourself in that playful illusion, the world outside the book somehow feels strangely vivid too. This is a picture book whose afterglow of joy lingers in your heart for a long, long time.