{"product_id":"그해-가을","title":"That Autumn","description":"Description: An Emotional Encounter with the Prose of Kwon Jeong-saeng, a Leading Figure in Korean Children's Literature, Now Told as a Picture Book!\n\nCreated by children's author Yoo Eun-sil and illustrator Kim Jae-hong, \"That Autumn\" brings to life the essay of the same name by Kwon Jeong-saeng, a shining star of Korean children's literature, in picture book form. Yoo Eun-sil, winner of the 6th Kwon Jeong-saeng Creative Writing Fund, faithfully preserved the emotional depth of the original while rewriting it anew for a picture book format, and Kim Jae-hong provided the illustrations. The story unfolds like a sad and beautiful fairy tale, capturing the moment when young Kwon Jeong-saeng, living in a small room by the church entrance, met Changseop, a child with disabilities. The narrative offers a full sense of Kwon Jeong-saeng's life and thoughts, while the weighty illustrations realistically depict a tragic event that occurred on a bleak autumn day, leaving a deep emotional impact.\n\n[Synopsis]\nSixteen-year-old Changseop, who has intellectual and physical disabilities, occasionally visits \"me\" (Kwon Jeong-saeng), who lives in the small room by the church entrance. On a rainy autumn day, Changseop comes to me saying he's hungry. But with nothing to eat at home, I sing hymns together with Changseop to help us both forget our hunger. A month later, after Sunday service, Changseop tells me his stomach hurts. Not thinking much of it, I roughly fix his clothes and send him on his way...\n\nRediscovering Kwon Jeong-saeng's Prose in Picture Book Form\n\nThe late Kwon Jeong-saeng's essay \"That Autumn\" was first published in the November 1975 issue of \"Saegajeong\" magazine, and later included in the essay collection \"Bilbangi Hill\" (Changbi, 2012), published to mark the 5th anniversary of the author's passing. In the autumn of 2013, children's author Yoo Eun-sil was deeply moved by this short seven-page piece within the collection. As the emotional impact stayed with her over time, she decided she needed to share this story's power with children, and began writing the picture book manuscript. Yoo Eun-sil carefully crafted the text by drawing directly from passages in Kwon Jeong-saeng's original work, while adding accessible language drawn from biographies, essays, and other sources about Kwon Jeong-saeng's life. The picture book \"That Autumn\" reflects Yoo Eun-sil's heartfelt wish: \"I wanted to bring Changseop — a character loved by no one — to life as the protagonist of this book, so that children could meet him.\" This book offers young readers a precious opportunity to fully experience the emotional power of Kwon Jeong-saeng's prose through the medium of a picture book.\n\nThe Story of a Child Young Kwon Jeong-saeng Once Met\n\nFrom February 1968, Kwon Jeong-saeng lived in the small entrance room of Iljik Church. The west-facing mud-walled room was hot in summer and cold in winter, but to him, \"that tiny room was a place where I could write and often meet with children\" (from \"Our God,\" Green Review Press, 1996; revised edition 2008, p.20). While battling illness brought on by poverty, he worked as a caretaker managing church affairs and spent time with children as a Sunday school teacher, writing stories along the way. During this time, in the autumn of 1971, a child began visiting the entrance room where young Kwon Jeong-saeng lived several times a day. It was sixteen-year-old Changseop, who had both physical and intellectual disabilities.\n\n\"Changseop didn't know how to cry. He didn't seem to know pain either. But he clearly seemed to understand one thing: that he and I were alike. And that we could understand each other.\"\n\nLiving a difficult life with a frail body, young Kwon Jeong-saeng came to share a bond of mutual understanding and friendship with Changseop, who occasionally visited him. The picture book \"That Autumn\" captures the moments shared between young Kwon Jeong-saeng and Changseop, from their meeting on a drizzly autumn day to the child's sudden passing. While Changseop's parents and those around him uniformly disliked him, Kwon Jeong-saeng did not treat him the way others did. In his essay \"The Way to Live Like the Poor Jesus,\" Kwon Jeong-saeng wrote, \"Even something that appears grotesque to human eyes was created because it is beautiful in God's sight\" (\"Bilbangi Hill,\" p.168). In the picture book \"That Autumn,\" readers can fully feel Kwon Jeong-saeng's worldview — his belief that if we live not by narrow human judgment but with the will of heaven in mind, the world would become a more beautiful place.","brand":"IBOOKPARK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49624002494692,"sku":"201910101188","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/9788\/6692\/files\/screen_shot_2019-10-10_at_4.14.48_pm.jpg?v=1786423549","url":"https:\/\/ibookpark.com\/en\/products\/%ea%b7%b8%ed%95%b4-%ea%b0%80%ec%9d%84","provider":"IBOOKPARK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}