연필/えんぴつ

えんぴつの削りくずが、葉っぱとなり、そこから芽を出し、木となり、森が広がる。
動物たちがやってきて、命あふれる世界が誕生する。
でも、ある日突然、木は切り倒され、鳥たちは空へ逃げていく…。
削られた木は工場で再び「えんぴつ」に生まれ変わり、 少女の手元に届く。
少女がそのえんぴつで描いたのは、再び、森。
動物たちが戻り、緑が蘇る。
色えんぴつで紡がれる循環の物語。

・2025 The New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books Award

연필/えんぴつ
Designer/김혜은
Publisher/Hyang Publishing House
2021年
294×216×10mm, 36pages
¥2200＋tax


Pencil
Pencil shavings turn into leaves.
From those leaves, buds appear, and they grow into trees until a forest spreads.
Animals arrive, and a vibrant world full of life is born.
But one day, suddenly, the trees are cut down, and the birds fly away into the sky.
The felled trees are taken to a factory and are reborn once again as pencils, eventually reaching the hands of a young girl.
With that pencil, the girl draws a forest again.
The animals return, and the green world comes back to life.
A story of circulation and renewal, woven through colored pencils.

・Award 2025 — The New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award

Pencil / 연필 / えんぴつ
Designer: Kim Hye-eun
Publisher: Hyang Publishing House
Year: 2021
Size: 294 × 216 × 10 mm
Pages: 36 pages
Price: ¥2,200 + tax