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My Favorite Korean Children’s Book | LIST

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http://list.or.kr/content/my-favorite-korean-children%E2%80%99s-book
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Hyeon Deok

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  • Hyeon Deok
  • Birth : 1909 ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Deok
  • Family Name : Hyeon
  • Korean Name : 현덕
  • ISNI : 0000000067620547
  • Works : 4
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My Favorite Korean Children’s Book   By Dafna Zur on Nov 21 2014 15:08:20 Vol.20 Summer 2013 My interest in Korean children’s literature began in 2007, with the birth of my second child. I was struggling to come up with a topic for my doctoral dissertation. My older son was two and a half, and began to request that I read longer books to him at bedtime. Back then we were living in Canada, and the books I owned and borrowed from the library were the ones I had read as a child. At that time I had been reading Korean literature for almost 10 years, but I suddenly came up with a new question: What do Korean children read? My question surprised me because I had never asked it before. But thanks to my children’s growing interest in books, my curiosity about the Korean children’s book industry grew. Having been raised in a house full of books, I asked some of my Korean friends and peers what they had read as children. I was surprised when many could not remember a favorite book, or when they mentioned biographies of Western characters, or Aesop’s and Anderson’s tales. Where, I wondered, where are all the original Korean stories .

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