Watermelon Pool
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected Jun 2, 2026
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- $6.99
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- Pre-Order
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A glorious celebration of imagination and summertime in this Korean bestselling picture book, now available in English
When the summer sun is in full force, there’s only one way to beat the heat: dive into a watermelon pool. After a large watermelon gets split in half, everyone in the village dives in, digging into the fruit and making slides from the rind while spending a joy-filled day together until nightfall.
Bonsoir Lune is a bestselling and beloved picture book creator working in Korea. Watermelon Pool was her debut picture book, first published in 2015. Translated by New York Times bestselling author Fraces Cha, Watermelon Pool is the perfect, refreshing read during any scorching hot summer.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Lune's frolicsome picture book variation on a common summer diversion, two halves of a split watermelon offer the residents of a rural community the perfect spot to take a dip. Beneath a "blazing summer sun," a ripening melon opens ("CRACK"), ushering in "opening day at the watermelon pool." Setting a tall ladder alongside the melon, a comparatively diminutive human figure climbs up, then wades in—removing a black seed to reveal a juicy, ruby-red place to relax. Soon, children sporting swimwear and inner tubes rush to join. As the group revels, novel details incorporate a sense of whimsy: a cloud-seller arrives to peddle cooling cloud parasols and rain-cloud showers, and an elder constructs a slick slide from a piece of fruit rind. As spare narration combines with occasional utterances from daintily rendered figures, who read as East Asian, much of the story's action unfolds near wordlessly across carefully shaded colored pencil drawings in comics-like panels. The result is a deliciously sensorial portrait of swimming as a refreshing summertime treat. Ages 4–8.
