A new world dreamed of by a needle person and a needle child

"Needle Child" begins when a needle person and a child who live in different worlds meet.
The moment the needleman, who had lost everything and was sleeping as if dead, and the child, whose self-esteem was as low as it could get, meet each other, the child sees the needleman's dream, and the needleman sees new hope.
Perhaps what the needle person saw was a small hope that this little child could save nature again.


I hope that after reading "The Needle Child," more children will meet the needle people hidden throughout nature and dream of new hope.
Because those small hopes come together to create small changes, and those changes can breathe life back into our dying nature.


A story about caring for and healing nature wounded by human desire.

Yoon Yeo-rim is a representative picture book author in Korea who has received a warm response from readers for her warm perspective on everyday life and sincere stories in numerous works, including the picture book 『We Always Meet Again』 that all mothers can relate to, 『The Country Where Words Live』 that teaches us the importance of speaking wisely by utilizing the double meaning of 'words', and the 'Mask Teacher' series that tells the story of a quiet but genuinely loving and communicating teacher.


The small and delicate protagonist with her own strength, whom we have encountered in the works of author Yun Yeo-rim, appears again this time.
Yoon-i from "The Needle Boy" is smaller and more timid than her peers, but she is courageous.
“Cross the ditch, overcome your fear!” It’s as if it’s telling us who are standing before the ‘ditch called the Corona era.’

Like a child growing up, author Yun Yeo-rim's world is now expanding beyond everyday life into society and nature, becoming more diverse.
The work at the starting line is ‘Needle Child’.
"Needle Child" is a picture book that not only embraces and heals wounded nature, but also cheers on all the "Yunis" in the world who are small but never give up.

Despair and hope drawn with meticulous pencil lines and pastel touches

Before and after Yun-i meets the needle person, a completely different world unfolds.
The message of the story changes depending on how the world before and after, that is, the real world and the world of fantasy, are expressed through images.
Artist Mo Ye-jin used meticulous pencil lines to create a monotone representation of the real world, while the fantasy world was richly rendered with all sorts of green hues.
As a result, the theme of raising hope in despair was beautifully realized.

The characters and detailed descriptions were drawn with pencil lines by overlaying them dozens or hundreds of times, and the overall colors and background descriptions were drawn using pastels.
It looks like watercolor pencils because of its very detailed and warm texture, but in fact it is the result of the artist's painstaking touch, one after another.


Artist Mo Ye-jin started with digital coloring, but when she felt it did not fit the story, she started over again by hand. In this large-scale painting that unfolds left and right, which appears twice, the artist shows her passion and unique style.