〈Lakivium J〉 is a picture book magazine that considers both children and adult readers.
It also includes information on which picture books are most appropriate for each age group, as well as how to enjoy picture books regardless of age.
It is a 'magazine' that contains the latest trends, but it is good to read regardless of the time.
It encompasses both the most lighthearted and most profound ways of looking at picture books.

Finally, 〈Lakivium J〉 reappeared wearing blue clothes.
It is filled with even more fun and beautiful picture book stories.
From picture books filled with the color blue to long summer nights, old tales that will bring you coolness, and exclusive interviews with Cha Ho-yoon, the first Korean Caldecott Honor winner, and Sydney Smith, the winner of the highly anticipated 2024 Andersen Award, await.
If you need to prepare to eat, play, and travel with your children during summer vacation with picture books, check out “Lakivium J Blue” right now.

A picture book magazine that is as beautiful, fun, and comforting as picture books, Lakivium J Blue!
In this hot summer, we hope that the blue picture book world presented by “Lakivium J Blue” will become a travel destination that will remain in your memories for a long time.

Sadness is blue? Blue is unfair!

There are some things to keep in mind when using color to describe emotions.
This means that subjective experience is a more important factor than objective facts in how individuals perceive or create color images.
The colors we perceive generally have both positive and negative connotations, such as gloomy blue and refreshing blue, passionate red and angry red, bright and cute yellow and jealous and greedy yellow.
In such a two-sided image of color, the moment and mood in which I see it inevitably become a decisive factor in the image! For some children, red represents a raging, angry face, while for others, it represents a powerful and cool fire engine.
So how unfair are the colors that are only portrayed with negative images?
--- p.20

Should I really read picture books about old stories?

Why don't you tell your children about these fascinating tales? Perhaps you're hesitant to tell them or read them to them because you hear rumors they're scary and cruel? Since tales are passed down by word of mouth, the stories told by the grandmothers in this neighborhood are different from those told by the grandmothers in that neighborhood.
The same goes for Western folk tales.
Even if you just look at 'Little Red Riding Hood', in the fairy tale written by Pero, Little Red Riding Hood ends up being eaten by a wolf.
Look.
Talk to a strange wolf on the street and you'll die! This is the lesson it teaches.
But after a hundred years or so, people's thoughts change.
Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother were eaten, but a passing woodcutter saved them.
As more time passes, the story changes to one where Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother are not eaten by the wolf, but rather the two join forces to catch and kill the wolf.
Even if they seem similar, the story changes slightly as time passes and circumstances change.
It's alive and moving.
--- p.56

Lee Eok-bae and picture books

“Picture books came to me like the wind one day, and now they are cute dictators who dominate most of my life.

I think I will be his loyal subject.”
--- p.63

The Old Story Continues - An Interview with Authors Mac Barnett and John Klassen

I've loved old stories since I was little.
Old stories, which follow the oral tradition format, are constantly changing as someone tells them and someone else tells them.
Even if it's the same story, it changes depending on the audience.
If the children listening to the story like scary things, they will change accordingly, and if they are afraid of monsters, they will change accordingly.
Sometimes they speak more softly.
It's an old story that things change flexibly depending on the personality of the speaker or the listener.
I've been wanting to rewrite this old story for a long time because of its charm.
- Mac Barnett
--- p.70

The picture book star that Oh Hyun-soo noticed, Cha Ho-yoon, the first Korean author to win a Caldecott Honor.

In America, there is a saying, 'A picture is worth a thousand words.'
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Thanks to art, I was able to freely tell the stories I wanted to tell.
For me, who was timid and didn't know myself well, art, which I started by chance, was truly a breath of fresh air.
I started to step forward to express myself through art and show my work to people, and as I started to speak on my own to explain my work, my confidence gradually grew.
--- p.87

A first in Korea! Exclusive interview with Sydney Smith! Full disclosure!

When I moved away from my friends to a strange and unknown place, painting gave me a place to focus my imagination and became my refuge.
When I draw monsters, robots, superheroes and dragons, they all become real.
I felt the scales of a dragon, I heard the growl of a monster, and I felt the strength of a superhero.
Those drawings stayed with me and I fell deeper into drawing.
And I kept drawing.
--- p.110

A picture book journey by a middle-aged couple in their fifties.

These days, I take along a picture book that catches my eye, even if it's not necessarily a picture book about a historical site.
I hope that the sight of me struggling to get a better shot of a picture book in my hand sparks curiosity about what a picture book is, and that during my break with a cup of tea, I will be impressed by the cover of the picture book on the table.
‘A Journey with Picture Books’ is an invitation given to those who travel together through picture books.
--- p.183

Picture Book Physical Properties Guide - Barcode

The barcode of 〈Lakivium J Pink〉 (No. 5, published in 2021) is a small bird's tail.
When you open this magazine, the first thing that comes up is always the explanation of the meaning of Lakibium J.
“Larchiveum” is a combination of Library + Archive + Museum.
J stands for both Journey and Jump.
It is Joyful and at the same time a Journal.
It is also a small bird (Jay), and Jay (提耳) is a 'noun.
Speak with your mouth close to the ear.
Or, 'teaching kindly' or 'tirum'.
And the second.
The second one is more exciting than the first one.
“Lakivium J” is a reader-based picture book magazine that connects you with the world of picture books.

I hope that the article in “Lakivium J Blue” will become a little bird that chirps happily in your heart.
I dream of a world overflowing with joy, where you and I, our children, are all excited and connected together, jumping for joy.

--- p.221