Description: A sticky, gooey, funky-smelling horde of zombies has come to steal a child's belly button! Jiwoo's family has gone on their summer vacation, and the always-bustling house has gone quiet. Jiwoo's kickboard, her brother's computer, and Mom and Dad's favorite TV have all fallen asleep. Only the refrigerator, humming away day and night, remains awake. "Jiwoo's family said they'd be back after two nights," chatter the three plum trio, so the refrigerator decides to take a well-earned rest too. But then... BOOM, CRASH! A thunderous noise wakes the plum trio to find that the entire refrigerator has turned into a world of zombies! Because the plum trio went into the fridge while still unripe and green, they managed to survive unharmed. The plum trio flees upstairs to escape the fruit and vegetable zombies, but an even scarier horde awaits them there—curry zombies, bubbling and boiling in a pot! Chased by meat zombies, potato zombies, carrot zombies, and onion zombies all covered in curry, the plum trio races all the way up to the top shelf. With nowhere left to run, what will they do? Can the plum trio survive until the refrigerator door finally opens? From author Yoon Jung-joo, who feels and thinks just like a child, comes a chase story that's a little gross, a little scary, and absolutely hilarious! Every child goes through a phase of believing that everything in the world is alive—a world full of objects that feel, think, speak, and act just like they do. Yoon Jung-joo's Kkong Kkong Kkong series is rooted in exactly that kind of animistic imagination. Because the author still feels and thinks like a child, she's able to keep pulling fresh stories from that world. The third story in the Kkong Kkong Kkong series, Kkong Kkong Kkong Zombie, was inspired by something almost everyone has encountered: spoiled food lurking in the back of the fridge. A horde of sticky, gooey, funky-smelling "zombies"—which might be the stuff of nightmares for parents—chases after the adorable plum trio in a wild pursuit that will have kids giggling uncontrollably. The plum trio's determination to remain themselves no matter what happens mirrors the resilience and zest for life found in children everywhere. It feels like the story is cheering kids on, encouraging them never to give up their will to live, even in a world full of zombies trying to trip them up at every turn. The soda's cool, selfless sacrifice—fizzing out to wash the zombies away—also catches the eye, making readers wish that all the bad things in the world could be swept away just as refreshingly. Perhaps the author included that soda scene with just such a wish in mind. But above all, what author Yoon Jung-joo hoped for most in bringing this book into the world is surely the bright laughter of children. May this book bring a burst of soda-pop refreshment and laughter to kids enduring their sometimes dull and tedious daily routines.