The Story of Two Dots
• Original title : 두 점 이야기
• Price : 21,000KRW
• Product Dimensions :
200x200, 60pages
• Publication Date : 2024-08-07
• ISBN : 9791169812122
• 추천기관 :
THE BRAW Amazing Bookshelf (2025)
Book Information & Summary
written by Joanna Olech and illustrated by Edgar Bak
The story of two dots, which began long time ago and still is ongoing.
A question to awaken everyone's consciousness about equality, “What do you think?”
The uncomfortable percent through 100 holes
How equal is today’s society now?
From the cover page, the curious symbol “%” is used to represent the ratio of pink to blue dots. This picture book illustrates the concept of percent with 100 dots to help children readers understand. However, the dots are not easily visible. A perforated plate with 100 holes in it must be held over the image of a harmonious mix of pink and blue to reveal the dots. The dots reveal the positions of women and men throughout the ages and across the globe. For example, the people who were faced with witchcraft trial in Europe in the 14th-18th century, people who had the right to vote in Switzerland in 1970, the top 100 CEOs of Korea's largest companies in 2022, and the gender ratio. And then you come face to face with a percentage value that makes your eyes widen in suspicion. The “percent” that can't be averaged screams out the inequalities that permeate each and every aspect of our society.
“The Story of Two Dots” is a picture book that uses a perforated board to open up thinking from a gender perspective. The black board that is placed on top of the harmonious picture may be a wall of preconceived notions that we have unknowingly cultivated. The writer, Joanna Olech, Edgar Bąk, and the translator Lee Ji Won, have worked together on picture books about equality and human rights.
And as the only overseas authors of the Democratic Human Rights Picture Book, they have taken a broad view of the issues surrounding gender equality. They clearly point out the history of humanity in which women's experiences have been significantly suppressed and show that it has not been resolved. However, this is not to say that this picture book is about making women's rights numerically equal to men's rights.
It is to say that in order to break free from the myths of the past and live in a healthy community without gender bias, we need to try and try.
That effort will start with a consciousness-raising question: “What do you think?”
The story of two dots, which began long time ago and still is ongoing.
A question to awaken everyone's consciousness about equality, “What do you think?”
The uncomfortable percent through 100 holes
How equal is today’s society now?
From the cover page, the curious symbol “%” is used to represent the ratio of pink to blue dots. This picture book illustrates the concept of percent with 100 dots to help children readers understand. However, the dots are not easily visible. A perforated plate with 100 holes in it must be held over the image of a harmonious mix of pink and blue to reveal the dots. The dots reveal the positions of women and men throughout the ages and across the globe. For example, the people who were faced with witchcraft trial in Europe in the 14th-18th century, people who had the right to vote in Switzerland in 1970, the top 100 CEOs of Korea's largest companies in 2022, and the gender ratio. And then you come face to face with a percentage value that makes your eyes widen in suspicion. The “percent” that can't be averaged screams out the inequalities that permeate each and every aspect of our society.
“The Story of Two Dots” is a picture book that uses a perforated board to open up thinking from a gender perspective. The black board that is placed on top of the harmonious picture may be a wall of preconceived notions that we have unknowingly cultivated. The writer, Joanna Olech, Edgar Bąk, and the translator Lee Ji Won, have worked together on picture books about equality and human rights.
And as the only overseas authors of the Democratic Human Rights Picture Book, they have taken a broad view of the issues surrounding gender equality. They clearly point out the history of humanity in which women's experiences have been significantly suppressed and show that it has not been resolved. However, this is not to say that this picture book is about making women's rights numerically equal to men's rights.
It is to say that in order to break free from the myths of the past and live in a healthy community without gender bias, we need to try and try.
That effort will start with a consciousness-raising question: “What do you think?”
Editor’s Note
