{"product_id":"이상한-엄마-2","title":"The Strange Mother","description":"Description\n\nLovingly and carefully crafted, Baek Heena's picture book The Strange Mother, from her 'Strange' series alongside The Strange Guest, has returned looking fresh and new. In a word, this revised edition is 'a Baek Heena picture book you simply must see again.' Just placing the two beautifully designed covers side by side is a joy for the eyes. Though it's the same story, it feels new, as if you're seeing it for the very first time. This new edition comes in a compact size that's easy on little hands and perfect for reading together while lying down. Newly added visual details and delicately refined scenes make the story even more vivid and alive, offering readers fresh emotions and new experiences.\n\nOf course, the process wasn't an easy one. The author carefully re-selected the scenes for this edition and meticulously adjusted the colors and lighting to fit the story's emotional tone and mood. She searched for just the right paper to bring the story to life, and there were days when printing had to be stopped because the results weren't quite as intended. After this trial and error, the result is a book with even richer physical quality and narrative depth. We hope that Baek Heena's 'Strange' world, unfolding here at Storybowl, will finally bloom as brightly as flowers on a clear spring day — and that the hidden effort and sincerity of the author and everyone involved will touch readers' hearts deeply.\n\n★ The Strange Mother has returned looking even warmer and more sensory. On the new cover, the clouds that once hid her have been swept away, revealing her mysterious, pure white face in full view. Wearing an apron, the fairy — like a beautifully adorned new bride with traditional rouge and forehead dots — shyly greets the reader with her hands modestly clasped together.\n\n★ The cover, in a soft egg-yolk yellow, is wrapped in a five-colored cloud band that gives it a unique yet warm feeling. On the back of the band is a scene of a rainy veranda, evoking the wistful image of the strange mother looking back as she leaves Hoho's house. Inside the band's flaps, the author's early sketches are also included, letting readers compare them with the finished scenes in the book.\n\n★ The Strange Mother is filled with an unusually large number of hidden secrets — Easter eggs — placed by the author. Once you start looking, you keep noticing more. On the page connected to the fairy's red rouge-colored endpaper, pure white eggs from the heavenly realm are mysteriously arranged. But by the final page, all the heavenly eggs have vanished. Where did they go? Did the strange mother use them because there weren't enough eggs on earth? Or are they Baek Heena's story-eggs, sent down from the heavens? Tiny hidden details can be found scene after scene — in the heavenly background glimpsed behind the fairy, her true job is subtly revealed, and on the rainy street, someone who knows the secret of candy-making passes by. Even the photo on the calendar in Hoho's house shows a very familiar scene and characters. At this point, there isn't a single scene worth glancing past.\n\nThe Strange Answer of the 'Strange Mother'\n\n\"What should I do?\" There are times when you're stuck, pacing anxiously, with nowhere to turn and no one to lean on. Was it because heaven made a mistake and dropped some food? That day, it poured down rain in Seoul. Hoho, who had gone to school, came down with a fever and had to leave early. Hoho's mother, who was at work, wanted to rush straight to her child, but she couldn't just walk away with so much work piled up. It's a moment when a mother desperately needs her own mother. In her urgency, she dials a number at random — but it's misconnected, and answered in heaven. Hoho's mother has no time to notice the static or the unfamiliar voice on the other end. 'Me... a mother?' The fairy in heaven, who happened to pick up the mysterious call, is just as flustered. She, too, has no time to sort out the mix-up given Hoho's mother's urgency. And besides, how could heaven turn a blind eye when a child is sick? There's nothing else to do — she'll simply have to become a mother. Answering the plea from earth, the fairy rides down on a cloud, hurrying to find Hoho's house. Not knowing the ways of earthly makeup, the heavenly fairy — her face powdered pure white — decides today to become sick little Hoho's strange mother.\n\nA Strange, Warm Flavor\n\nOh dear, Hoho's house is so cold. This calls for an egg dish. The strange mother searches every corner of Hoho's house and finds a carton of eggs. 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