Lee, Tae-Jun (Text) / Kim, Dong-Seong (Illustration)
Wann kommt Mama?
A picture book from Korea
Translated from Korean by Andreas Schirmer
Baobab Books, 2007
40 pages
ISBN 978-3-905804-23-2
CHF 24.80 / €  (D) 15,90 / € (A) 16,40
ages 3 and up

With no sense for time, a child is waiting at the tram stop, and wants to know when his mother will arrive. Trams come and go. It begins to snow. With a red nose, the child stands his ground against the wind – and finally the mother comes. The contemporary illustrator has combined an Asian pictorial tradition with his own handwritten text to present a story originally written in the 1930s in clear, poetically charged images.

Nominated for «Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis» 2008

Original: »Waiting for Mom« © 2004 Sonyunhangil Publishers, Seoul