Strolling through books

Promenade

★ Winner of the 2016 World Illustration Awards (Highest Prize in the Professional Book Category)
★ Passionately translated by Wang Zhigeng, Director of the National Library Children's Section
★ A beautiful picture book for book lovers, featuring over 20 imaginative ideas about books and reading, capturing the wonderful moments of encounters between people and books.
★ Each illustration is a work of art, delivering a powerful visual impact that resonates deeply with the soul.
★ Large 8K format, high-definition full-color printing, each page offers an immersive art exhibition experience.
【Content Introduction】
“A Walk in the Book” is one of the works launched by the Magic Elephant Picture Book Kingdom of Guangxi Normal University Press.
This is a picture book with the theme of books, showcasing the vast world that reading brings to us. Besides reading, books can also become airplane wings, striped ceilings, shimmering ponds, a dreamlike kingdom, an adventurous paradise; they can become your sky, or just a quiet little corner; they help the elderly realize their dream of rejuvenation, and give a little girl the courage to walk alone in the snow; they are also like a warm lamp, waiting for you to come home late at night…
This book embarks on a wonderful and long journey, allowing readers to enter a magical world within books, seeing the many facets and possibilities of books, which can inspire readers' imagination and desire for exploration.
【Editor's Recommendation】
Picture books with the theme of books often approach the subject from the perspective of reading, while the book as a medium itself is often overlooked. The author of this book takes a new approach, injecting various imaginations into the physical form of books, creating many creative artworks that depict a mysterious world rich in artistic value and profound meaning.
This book visualizes the beautiful moments of life, the vibrations and echoes of the soul, one by one, making readers feel as if they are entering a distant land and embarking on an unknown and charming mysterious journey. It accompanies readers to appreciate and experience the joys and confusions of life, internalizing the flow of thoughts and mental states during reading into an eternal force for pursuing the mysteries of life.
Through still images like cinematic long takes, the illustrations provide readers with a calm and peaceful moment of rest during the reading process. The composition is meticulous and mature, and the visual narrative is full of allegories. In the bluish tones, a warm glow symbolizing hope shines through, preventing readers from falling into a dark and colorless night or getting lost in the vast sea of books, thereby leading readers to rediscover the innocent heart they should embrace when facing life's difficulties.
Media Recommendations:
In recent years, I have been focusing on works with the theme of books. Books are an ancient and familiar medium for humans. Such a simple medium, yet it can lead readers through time and space.
—Lee Jee-hong (Author and illustrator of this book, Korean illustrator)
Among my many translated works, "A Walk in the Book" is the most special. It is a picture book for all book lovers.
—Wang Zhigeng (Director of the National Library Children's Section)
Lee Jee-hong won the 2016 World Illustration Awards not only for his excellent technique, but also for his outstanding imagination.
—Association of Illustrators, UK
"A Walk in the Book" is one of the picture books that received the best feedback from adult picture book readers in Korea, with thought-provoking imagery.
—JoongAng Ilbo (Sunday Edition), Korea
Lee Jee-hong's works are elegant and warm, with powerful visuals, full of romanticism and humanistic atmosphere.
—CA Magazine, Korea
From the cover onwards, every image in the book is like a poster with books as the theme.
—Open Book, a professional book review website in Taiwan, China
In Lee Jee-hong's works, "books" become visualized symbols with metaphorical meanings, such as airplane wings or stars in a pond.
—Christopher Jobson (American writer, curator, and founder and editor-in-chief of the art and creativity website Colossal)
Lee Jee-hong depicts various encounters during a long search in the forest of books, presenting the spiritual imagery of a leisurely walk-like reading in a quiet tone.
—Lan Jianhong (Taiwanese children's book author, Ph.D. in children's literature)
What is "strolling" for?…The words in the book won't give you a clear answer, because the answers are almost all in the pictures.
—Maniniwei (Malaysian poet, picture book author)
The confusion and uncertainty that fill every stage of life are the mist and desolation in the pictures. Fortunately, the author always allows light to find its place in every picture, whether it's stars, lighthouses, or the faint morning glow. Although seemingly weak, they are enough to calm one's heart.
—Obscura Magazine, Hong Kong, China
Combining life, imagination, and illustrations to create a collection of illustrative works rich in artistic value and profound meaning, transforming people's thoughts about "books" into visual experiences, winning the International Illustration Award is truly well-deserved!
—Fliper Mag, a cultural and artistic community media in Taiwan, China
Lee Jee-hong's picture book "A Walk in the Book" is a good example of slow reading. It uses books as the theme for illustrations, accompanied by a single line of descriptive text. The "book" in this book transforms from airplane wings at the beginning to a curtain connecting a new world, and then to a wall constructing a house. The spine of a book can become a volcano, and an open book is abstracted into a stormy night sky, and a lighthouse illuminating the sea under the night sky.
—Lee Sun-kyung (Korean literary critic)
I really like the work of Korean illustrator Lee Jee-hong. Every time I fly, I think of the pictures in the book.
—Jeff Hamada (Canadian artist, founder of the art online magazine Booooooom)

2020-04-23

广西师范大学出版社

Magic Elephant Children's Bookstore

48

9787559826756