Horai
• Original title : 호라이
• Price : 14,000KRW
• Product Dimensions :
200x202, 116pages
• Publication Date : 2021-07-08
• ISBN : 9791160947328
Book Information & Summary
Written and Illustrated by Seo Hyun
This fried egg picture book is written by Seo Hyun, the writer who describes how children really feel with their heart using her witty imagination. The writer has put her bold imagination originated from a fried egg into these two picture books. The main character’s name is ‘Horai’. The writer presents endless stories based on her unique and amazing imagination picking out a small and weak living creature as a main character in both ‘Horai’, and ‘Horai Horai’.
Readers will be able to enjoy these books while following sensual images and unexpected story line. As they read these books, they perhaps want to cry out loud as if they cast a magic spell to fly into the sky. Horai, Horai!
‘Horai’, the big adventure of Horai who is unique, wacky and cheerful.
The magic making us see the world in a totally different and new way
Horai, who once was on the bowl of rice, suddenly freely flies over the world as if he is doing a teleportation. He sometimes pretends to be a hat on a child’s head, to be a blanket covering dad while asleep and sometimes feels the air while posing like he is playing a roller skate on a running car. Just look at Horai who revives inside a watermelon even after already died under the child’s bottom at the friend’s house. These are unexpected moments making readers more falling into the story.
Horai flies over again as if nothing happens anywhere. Even if he comes back from the heaven, he also visits the hell after digging underground. How come this unique and wacky adventure is so joyful? The writer seems to invite readers to play together, saying the space of this picture book is too wide to play alone over an illustration cut and a short sentence. ‘Horai’ is the book which everyone can join the adventure if readers let themselves follow. The writer continuously shows sensual images and leads readers to see the world of our daily life differently thanks to the sudden appearance of Horai. We can just see, feel and enjoy this adventure like an imagination play, as if Horai does!
This fried egg picture book is written by Seo Hyun, the writer who describes how children really feel with their heart using her witty imagination. The writer has put her bold imagination originated from a fried egg into these two picture books. The main character’s name is ‘Horai’. The writer presents endless stories based on her unique and amazing imagination picking out a small and weak living creature as a main character in both ‘Horai’, and ‘Horai Horai’.
Readers will be able to enjoy these books while following sensual images and unexpected story line. As they read these books, they perhaps want to cry out loud as if they cast a magic spell to fly into the sky. Horai, Horai!
‘Horai’, the big adventure of Horai who is unique, wacky and cheerful.
The magic making us see the world in a totally different and new way
Horai, who once was on the bowl of rice, suddenly freely flies over the world as if he is doing a teleportation. He sometimes pretends to be a hat on a child’s head, to be a blanket covering dad while asleep and sometimes feels the air while posing like he is playing a roller skate on a running car. Just look at Horai who revives inside a watermelon even after already died under the child’s bottom at the friend’s house. These are unexpected moments making readers more falling into the story.
Horai flies over again as if nothing happens anywhere. Even if he comes back from the heaven, he also visits the hell after digging underground. How come this unique and wacky adventure is so joyful? The writer seems to invite readers to play together, saying the space of this picture book is too wide to play alone over an illustration cut and a short sentence. ‘Horai’ is the book which everyone can join the adventure if readers let themselves follow. The writer continuously shows sensual images and leads readers to see the world of our daily life differently thanks to the sudden appearance of Horai. We can just see, feel and enjoy this adventure like an imagination play, as if Horai does!
Editor’s Note
_ Jieli (China)