{"product_id":"엄마의-여름-방학","title":"Mom's Summer Vacation","description":"Description: A Nostalgic Journey Into Mom's Illustrated Diary!\n\n\"Mom, what do we do now?\" After fully enjoying the freedom of doing absolutely nothing during summer vacation, the child finally asks Mom this question — already bored of having nothing to do. But Mom doesn't have any brilliant ideas either. \"I don't know either,\" she replies half-heartedly. The child asks again, \"Mom, what did you do during your summer vacations?\" That single question brings a spark of life to Mom's face, which had been troubled about how to spend the summer. \"Hmm, let's see what Mom used to do.\" Together, the child and Mom open an old illustrated diary found in Mom's treasure box and travel back in time to the summer of 1995.\n\nThat year, when Mom was the same age as her child is now, she took a train with her older sister to their grandparents' house — just the two of them, for the very first time. The trip that always felt quick when the whole family went together now feels impossibly long with just the two sisters. Drinking a banana milk that the grandmother in the next seat bought for them because they were \"so grown-up,\" they watch the mountains, fields, and rivers pass by the train window until they arrive at the station, where their grandfather is waiting to greet them.\n\nAs soon as they step into the house, the dog Seri comes running out happily, wagging her tail — but the cousins hang back shyly, keeping their distance, even though they'd all played together happily just last New Year's. That awkwardness doesn't last long, though. Soon the four children put their heads together, scheming up all sorts of fun: going on a courage test at cousin Junil's school, staying up all night telling ghost stories, filling a big basin with water for a splash-fight... The three days that seemed worrying without Mom and Dad around fly by in the blink of an eye.\n\nFor all the grown-ups who watched over us until we became adults ourselves — Mom's Summer Vacation carries readers back thirty years, like flipping through an old photo album. In a world that looks both familiar and different from today, children meet parents who were once just as young as they are now, and adults come face-to-face with cherished, long-missed scenery — the kind rarely captured in the stiff, posed photos of old albums.\n\nThe watercolor scenes that illustrator Kim Yu-jin brings to life from that era make it hard to turn the pages too quickly. Each scene invites you to linger, to look closely into every corner, and to want to share old memories with someone by your side right now. The memories we so often push aside while rushing through daily life remind us that our hearts — which sometimes feel empty — are actually full of dazzling fragments of summer. Countless summers like these, stacked one upon another, have made us who we are today. And even in moments when we feel utterly alone in the world, this book reminds us that we never truly were — that there have always been people watching over our birth and growth with wonder, cheering for us with all their hearts.\n\nIllustrator Kim Yu-jin says it was memories like these that inspired her to create this book. Near the end of the story, a grandmother bathes her grandchild and says, \"Once you grow up — into a middle schooler, a high schooler, a college student, an adult — you'll probably forget all about me washing you like this, won't you?\" That bittersweet yet touching line is what moved the author to pick up her brush. Looking back now, she realized that the attention, love, and care she received from her grandmother and other adults in her life were never something to be taken for granted — they were never free, never guaranteed.\n\nMom's Summer Vacation is both an expression of gratitude for that love and care, and a way of passing it forward into the world. We hope that children and adults who read this book will feel, even just for a moment, that they are connected to one another within the dazzling light of summer.","brand":"IBOOKPARK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49624323555556,"sku":"10252024990","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/9788\/6692\/files\/9791158364762.jpg?v=1786426613","url":"https:\/\/ibookpark.com\/en\/products\/%ec%97%84%eb%a7%88%ec%9d%98-%ec%97%ac%eb%a6%84-%eb%b0%a9%ed%95%99","provider":"IBOOKPARK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}