Peach Heaven
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- ¥1,100
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- ¥1,100
発行者による作品情報
“What is the best thing about where you live? Share something unusual about it.”
I smiled as I wrote “Peaches.”
The peaches grown in Bucheon are the best in all of South Korea, and a rare treat for a young Yangsook. She dreams of a peach orchard where she can play and eat as much of the delicious fruit as she wishes. Then one day, after hours of a sudden heavy downpour, the sky begins to rain peaches. Yangsook finds herself in peach heaven—until she remembers the farmers who have lost their harvest and decides she must help them.
Fully revised and re-illustrated, Peach Heaven is a timeless ode to human kindness and childhood wonder based on the author’s early life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In 1976 Bucheon, young Yangsook is busy with homework, writing about "the best peaches in all of South Korea," which are grown nearby. Though the "orchards painted the mountainside pink and orange," the sweet fruits are expensive and can be hard to come by. Suddenly, an August storm sends peaches raining from the skies outside, carried down from the mountain. Yangsook gathers the windfall in an umbrella, and the family feasts on peaches that night. Later, realizing that the peach farmers on the mountainside have lost this year's crop, the child comes up with a plan to restore part of their harvest. Modeling intergenerational community cooperation, Choi's story, fully revised and re-illustrated nearly two decades after its initial publication, captures a moment in time via watercolor and pencil depictions that lean fittingly on green and peach hues. An author's note concludes. Ages 4–8.
