{"product_id":"제가-잡아-먹어도-될까요","title":"May I Eat Him?","description":"Description\n\nA soft-hearted wolf story like you've never seen in a picture book before! This is no longer the wicked wolf who only ever hunts down the good-hearted hero. Lucas the wolf is polite, warm-hearted, and always troubled because he's simply too soft-hearted for his own good. When hungry Lucas runs into familiar fairy tale characters along his way, who will he actually be able to eat?\n\nA soft-hearted wolf story like you've never seen in a picture book before!\n\nFew animals appear in fairy tales as often as the wolf. Yet no matter how the plot varies, the wolf's personality and role stay exactly the same: greedy and foolish, always trying and failing to eat the good-hearted hero, and always getting punished in the end. Taken together, these tales follow a familiar pattern — an innocent hero leaves home, faces an outside threat represented by the wolf, and returns home realizing just how precious it truly is. Within this framework, the wolf plays the 'loyal villain,' reinforcing the fairy tale ideology that children should always be obedient.\n\nThe two books in the 'Soft-Hearted Wolf' series boldly break down the prejudices we've long held about wolves. In 'May I Eat Him?', it's the wolf who leaves his peaceful home. Along the way, he meets familiar fairy tale characters, but once he hears their heartfelt stories, he simply can't bring himself to eat them, and lets them go instead. Meanwhile, in the companion book 'Dinner Is Ready!,' the wolf catches a pig meaning to eat him, but ends up becoming his friend instead — and even manages to convince his confused family to accept it. In the end, that wolf defies his parents' wishes, yet he isn't scolded or punished. Instead, he simply trusts his own choice and does his best.\n\nBy parodying the traditional fairy tale formula — where a good hero battles a bad villain to teach a lesson about virtue and vice — the author playfully overturns our fixed assumptions. In this book, the wolf doesn't simply act out his predetermined 'bad guy' role; instead, he hesitates, worries, and ultimately changes his mind. A wolf who wrestles with very 'human' doubts, rather than acting with typical 'wolfish' ferocity, feels all the more relatable and endearing.\n\nRather than delivering a moralizing lesson dressed up as a fairy tale, this book draws children in naturally through a living, breathing character and story, allowing them to genuinely empathize — and that's where it truly shines. The author, who is known for borrowing a comic-book style to bring characters to life rather than relying solely on narrative, has created illustrations perfectly pitched to a child's eye level. The relaxed, easygoing artwork adds an extra touch of delight. It's also fun to imagine, together with your child, what other 'Soft-Hearted Wolf' stories might look like.\n\n▶ May I Eat Him?\n\nPolite and tender-hearted Lucas leaves home to live on his own. His father writes down on a piece of paper a list of things Lucas is allowed to eat. Along the way, Lucas meets the goat family, Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Little Pigs, and Peter, but after hearing their stories, his heart softens and he can't bring himself to eat any of them. Eventually, he stumbles upon a giant's house. Angered by the giant's rudeness, Lucas eats him on the spot, freeing Tom Thumb and his brothers who had been trapped inside. Then he adds 'man-eating giant' to the list his father gave him.\n\nAuthor: Geoffroy de Pennart\nBorn in Paris, France, in 1951, Geoffroy de Pennart currently works as a graphic designer while also writing and illustrating books for children. His works include The Queen Bee, The Wolf Is Back!, Sophie the Musical Cow, I'm Back!, and Tazar.\n\nTranslator: Lee Jeong-ju\nA graduate of the Department of French Language and Literature at Seoul Women's University and its graduate school, Lee Jeong-ju currently works as a professional translator in publishing and broadcasting. Her translation works include The Wisdom of China, the EBS program The World of Beauty, Fairy Tale Land of Thoughts, and Oh, I See.","brand":"IBOOKPARK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49623671374052,"sku":"1314823313","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/9788\/6692\/files\/1314823313_l1.jpg?v=1786421192","url":"https:\/\/ibookpark.com\/en\/products\/%ec%a0%9c%ea%b0%80-%ec%9e%a1%ec%95%84-%eb%a8%b9%ec%96%b4%eb%8f%84-%eb%90%a0%ea%b9%8c%ec%9a%94","provider":"IBOOKPARK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}