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Waiting for Mama - Lee Tae-Jun, Dong-Seong Kim, Lee Tae-Jun, Kim Dong-Seong
Waiting for Mama
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Told in a few lines of text, this tender story was first published in a newspaper in 1938. This tale from Korea is universal--a small child waits for Mama at the station, asking the conductor if he has seen her. The conductor hasn't, but cautions the child to wait a little farther from the... show more
Told in a few lines of text, this tender story was first published in a newspaper in 1938. This tale from Korea is universal--a small child waits for Mama at the station, asking the conductor if he has seen her. The conductor hasn't, but cautions the child to wait a little farther from the tracks. It is cold and snowy but the child waits patiently until finally Mama comes. In the last wordless spread, we see the small hand in a mother's firm clasp as they walk away from us. The art and text are so authentic, so real, that this book is best published in a bilingual edition that respects and honors those traditions. The Korean setting gives it special appeal to a growing demographic segment. The institutional market is especially hungry for bilingual books in languages beyond Spanish.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780735821439 (0735821437)
Publisher: NorthSouth
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
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4.0 Waiting for Mama
My grandmother, who is Korean, bought me this book a few years ago. This was a cute, touching story of a little boy waiting for his mother to come home from work. It is written in Korean with an English translation. The pictures were nice too. When I first read this book, I was extremely confused ab...
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