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Title: Reading Expedition with Pinocchio
Korean Original: 피노키오와 함께하는 독서 탐험

This book invites readers to a reading expedition with Pinocchio, where learning to read becomes an enjoyable, game-like adventure.

Book Summary

As it is said in ‘To all the Pinocchios in the world’, which appears on the dedication page of each book in the Pinocchio series published by Noble with Books, reading in one’s childhood has a greater impact than reading a book as an adult in one’s life. Books read during childhood can determine a person’s future.

What books one reads and what one thinks can determine a person’s life. What kind of books you read during your elementary school years determines what kind of compass you have in your journey over the sea of life. Having the right compass is the only way to lead a right life.

This book helps you learn the important meaning of “thinking” in life through a reading game. And it makes you realize that books and thoughts are like soul mates. Also, if you become close with books when you are in elementary school, you will find that you can have a best friend who will protect you for the rest of your life, which will bring books even closer.

This book will guide our children on the path to becoming a reading master and teach them how to enjoy reading as a game.

The main character of this book, Pinocchio, is in the fifth grade of elementary school. Pinocchio doesn’t particularly dislike reading books, but he struggles with reading, like a person stuck in a maze. He often finds it difficult to express his thoughts after reading a book.

Like Pinocchio, many children in Korea also have no fun reading books, and they have a hard time expressing their thoughts after reading one.

The reason is because they think that reading is connected to studying. So, if you change the circuitry of your brain to think that reading is not like studying, but like a game, you will open your eyes anew to reading. And, as an added bonus, you learn that this thought is the key to changing everything. In addition, fun pictures are also included to help enrich children’s imagination.

Translation supported by the Publication Abstract Translation Grant Program of the Korea Publishing Industry Promotion Agency (KPIPA).

Publication Information
  • Genre: Children's Story
  • Target Readers: 9 to 12-year-olds
  • Pages: 240
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9791190200608
  • Publication Date: 2021-11-30
Author & Illustrator

Sunwoo Cho
Text

As an elementary school girl, Cho Sunwoo was full of curiosity and passion so that she made class newspapers including a four-frame comic strip with her talented friends and sold the papers to the classmates. She graduated from Pohang elemenatary schoo, Pohang girls' middle school, and Pohang girls' high school. After graduating from Yoengnam University as a philosophy major, she came up to Seoul in pursuit of her dream. Although she did not like going to school, she is deeply related to education. She completed a course in teaching at university and obtained a secondary teaching certificate. In addition, she also worked as a reporter accredited to Seoul City Office of Education for Education News of which main readers are middle- and high-school teachers.

Sunwoo Cho majored in philosophy and is a writer and the CEO of Noble with Reading publishing house. He has written books such as How Can We Become Book Sommeliers; Pattern Recognition Method of Reading (with a History of Western Philosophy); Humanities in My Hands, the Door to Dreams; A Journey of Thinking with Pinocchio; So You Want to Publish; I Am an Indigo Child; and Reading Expedition with Pinocchio. Among them, Humanities in My Hands, the Door to Dreams and the Pinocchio project books were selected as Best Book by Bookdase (an organization of teachers who make the world warmer with books), Sejong Books, and the Korea Research Institute for Children’s Education and Culture, respectively.

Yongseok Lee
Illustrations

Yongseok Lee is the illustrator of Reading Expedition with Pinocchio.