Description: From Baek Heena, the author who brings back to both children and mothers a childhood full of magic, comes a story as bright as light and as warm as sunshine. Big Brother Frog is worn out from catching flies for his hungry tadpole siblings, who keep hitting him with their sparkling, pleading eyes. He falls asleep without having eaten a single fly all day long... Have you ever met such a simple, devoted big brother? In a small pond, there is a big brother frog who hatched earlier than the other tadpoles. Whenever the grown-up frogs go out to work, Big Brother Frog looks after his tadpole siblings. One day, while watching Big Brother Frog hunt for flies, one of the tadpoles calls out, "Brother!" "I'm hungry!" Big Brother Frog is momentarily puzzled by his sibling's innocent request, but soon stretches out his long tongue and catches a fly to hand over. Seeing this, the other tadpoles cheer, "Yay!" as if they had all agreed to it. Before long, cries of "Brother, me too!" and "Me too!" burst out from all directions. Big Brother Frog can't bear to ignore his siblings' bright, pleading eyes—and perhaps feeling a little proud—he wears himself out catching flies for them all. He falls asleep that night without having eaten a single fly himself... but the next day, as if by magic, he's full of energy again! What on earth happened to Big Brother Frog overnight? Dreaming of a World Where Good Deeds Are Rewarded with Good Outcomes This story began with a child Baek Heena met at a children's swimming class. Without anyone asking him to, the child was completely absorbed in taking care of younger children. His behavior, so far from the common adult belief that "kids these days only think of themselves," left a deep impression on the author. The story then took shape as a picture book after her own daughter innocently asked, "Frogs stick out their tongues to catch flies, right? What if their tongues stretch out too far?" The author always hopes to live in a world where good deeds are rewarded with good outcomes. But since reality isn't always so fair, she tries to capture the world she dreams of within her picture books. In that world, a grandmother wolf's concern for lost moon rabbits brings back a vanished moon (Moon Sherbet); a zebra's small kindness becomes the key to solving a neighbor's problem (Last Night); and a stray cat cares for a baby chick as if it were her own (Peep's Mother). And at the heart of that world are kind-hearted children: the cat siblings worrying about their father who left for work without breakfast (Cloud Bread); Deokji, who gives her only yogurt to a grandmother she's never met (The Bathhouse Ghosts); and Big Brother Frog, who stretches his tongue to unbelievable lengths to catch flies for his hungry tadpole siblings. The author always prepares a bit of magic in her picture books to make kind-hearted children happy. She hopes that magic reaches beyond the pages to bring happiness to real children too, and in some small way helps protect the seeds of goodness that children carry within them. A Picture Book Filled with 'Light' That Brightens and Warms Our Hearts "Are all these books really by the same author?" This is a common question from those encountering Baek Heena's picture books for the first time. It's rare, after all, for an author to use the same materials and techniques across different books. When asked why she changes her materials and techniques from book to book, her answer is always the same: "Each story calls for the materials and techniques that suit it best." Paper dolls were used in Moon Sherbet, where light and shadow mattered most; stuffed animals in Last Night, where each animal's unique traits needed to shine; pencil and charcoal drawings in Peep's Mother, to capture the cat's fluid movements; and clay figures in The Bathhouse Ghosts, to convey a familiar, lifelike sense of the body. In The Dung Fly I Tasted in a Dream, the author tried something new once again—lightly coloring tracing paper with colored pencils, rendering the characters and the backgrounds each in their own distinct way.