Part 1 paused

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The beginning of the incident
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21-day project
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The criminal left no traces at the scene.
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Any of us

Part 2: Coincidence and Coincidence

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Mr. Black Hat!
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New things
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Our tiger

Part 3: Please Take Care of the Tiger

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1 percent
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Time stopped again
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For your happiness
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I think I know who it is?

Part 4 Same time, same place

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Story of that day
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It's okay, it's okay
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A new beginning
Author's Note

◆ Did someone watching our world press the pause button?

Unforgettable experiences that stopped my world and my friends' worlds in their tracks.

An egg hatching project is currently underway in the space classroom.
Under the direction of their eccentric teacher, the children build their own egg incubator and carefully care for seven eggs like a mother hen.
Of all the tasks to be done, turning the eggs by hand to ensure they are evenly warm is the most popular among children.
It is so exciting to feel the warmth of an egg, which is warmer than human body temperature.
Woojoo arrived at school earlier than anyone else today to be the first to touch the eggs, avoiding the always picky class president, Eunbyeol Go.
However, the empty classroom is a mess, and Woo-joo, who ran to the egg incubator with Ji-soo-jin, who happened to arrive at school early, is momentarily stopped.
The egg, which was named Tiger, was found horribly broken.

The universe experiences several 'pauses' that freeze it as it experiences hatching an egg for the first time.
The 'Black Hat' incident that shocked and saddened everyone, the moment I heard the first cry of a chick breaking out of its egg, and the moment I held the hand of a friend who had experienced it all together.
As a fan of mystery novels and science magazines, Woo-joo has always been an intuitive and logical thinker. Through unforgettable experiences with his friends, he accepts waves of emotion that cannot be explained with his head alone, and expands the 'universe' within him.


◆ Are we sad or angry now?
If I were the black hat… what would I have done?
We have grown through the many faces of mistakes and failures.

The black hat that Woo-joo witnessed that day is pointed out as the most likely culprit who broke the egg.
With the help of their teacher, the universe and the children check the school CCTV and try to find the culprit.
The homeroom teacher, who tells the children to try everything themselves instead of giving answers whenever they ask questions, discovers who the Black Hat is, but instead of telling the children right away, asks the Black Hat to give him time to reveal himself.
The teacher's words that he is more concerned about children's hurt hearts than broken eggs comfort the children's hearts and at the same time provide a path for them to recover and recover from their failures and mistakes.


Anyone can fail and make mistakes, but not everyone can overcome and apologize.
From eggs to chicks, and from chicks to wonderful chickens leaving school, the warm and beautiful warmth of these children with different personalities will give young readers the courage to fail and make mistakes in a healthy way.


◆ Review comments

In many fairy tales to date, schools have been depicted as either the backdrop to a child's daily life or as problematic spaces where academic pressure, competition, and school violence occur.
However, this work depicts a very specific scene of education that takes place in schools and classrooms, and makes us think about the value that school education holds for children today.
Not only the social significance, but also the appeal of the story within the work itself is alive.
The process of solving the mystery of who broke the egg was maintained from beginning to end, and each character was portrayed as a lovable and special being.

-Judges: Hwang Seon-mi (children's story writer), Kim Hye-jeong (children's story writer), Kim Yu-jin (children's literature critic)