written and illustrated by Seo Hyun

This picture book is a small book with a nude binding, which means that the usual spine has been removed and only the grass-colored threads are visible. In the center of the solid cover is a small hole about 3 centimeters in diameter. When you look through the hole, your eyes meet a very tiny grasshopper, who has just prepared his tea utensils for a cup of tea.
Now you go into the grasshopper's home. You see a small house stuck in the long grass, with a round window. There's a small kitchen, a teacup, and a futon. In this seemingly uneventful space, a grasshopper dreams of becoming a person every single day. This strange and unfamiliar dream experience sends a strange and exciting ripple through his monotonous life.

The author took a grasshopper from an old painting, ‘Chochoongdo’ (The painting of grass and insects) and made it the main character of the story. The watermelon, cucumber, bellflower, green vines, butterflies, trumpeter beetles, and dung beetles in this book are the subjects of ‘Chochoongdo’, a favorite painting of the Joseon Dynasty’s painter Shin Saimdang. In this story, they become the three-dimensional world of the grasshopper. The grasshopper becomes a human in his dreams, and one day, he lifts up a pot of plants that smells exactly like the grass he lives in. He sees a grasshopper that looks just like him. A tense moment occurs in the story. When the pot is broken in the dream, the story picks up speed. A man dozes off in a museum after closing time and dreams of becoming a grasshopper. Dazed, he runs out of the darkened museum and into the rain that has just begun to fall. Was this man's dream the whole story of the grasshopper? Or is he part of the larger dream of the grasshopper? Whose dream was the story told in this book? The transition becomes urgent. The story gets bigger.