Written and Illustrated by Moon Jina

The book, ‘Summer Light’, shows the journey of a child and the scenes are proceeded along with the movement of the light. The yellow summer light passes a red hair comb, a pair of red sneakers, a red truck under the sun, and finally jumps into the red watermelon.

Then, it moves to the green. The light goes to a green bird, green trees over the fence, a green tennis court spouting heat, and finally disappears into the green woods with grass shaking by the cool wind. When the night comes, the strong summer light turns softer and then, becomes the yellow moon over the highway in the sky and becomes the yellow shiny lights from the highway rest area.

Then, it turns into the yellow light beam from the morning sun coming out beyond the horizon. Finally, it arrives at the destination, the blue ocean. The summer light, which continues to change itself, begin getting smaller and bigger in the scene creating flexible flows. The illustrations drawn with red, green, yellow, black, and blue oil pastels will make readers taste the summer just like they have a bite of juicy fruit.

The hot summer disappears, and the light still stays.

The memories of the last summer will remain as some snap photos taken by accident while traveling or some pieces of memo that we have written down our feelings. Collecting pieces of summer means remembering the summer. ‘The Summer Light’ presents plain sentences like we keep our diary to express the moments we see, hear, and feel.
‘Freely shaking grass’ means the time we spend in the woods facing the wind, and ‘the car full of songs from the radio’ means the moment we wait for the sunrise after driving the whole night toward the ocean. ‘The movement of the rubber tube’ is also expressed as the feeling of sea waves. These sentences are the ones we can write down only during the summer while opening the senses of the writer’s body. When we read these sentences out loud, this picture book may approach us and talk.
‘How do you remember your summer? If you don’t remember, just open the curtain in the window.
The summer light will always fall like a shower.