Little dad, cared for by his son, never forgets to smile!

This book is about a father from his son's perspective.
The deep sorrow of my father who is ill is obscured and not easily seen.
It was also intentionally covered.
When a child is young, the father appears very large.
As the child grows, he or she will be the same height as his or her father for several years.
But at some point, Dad starts to get smaller.
The father tells his son, “You’ve grown bigger than me now!” But the son has already grown up, and the father, on the other hand, is getting smaller.
As time went by, when Dad sat on the chair, his feet did not touch the floor.
The father in the picture is getting smaller and smaller.


The son notices that his father's change is strange.
The younger my father gets, the more he acts like a child.
Sometimes, they don't even clean their rooms and fall asleep in places like the bathtub.
He likes sweet things and sometimes cries like a baby.
I can't find my keys or I forgot to turn off the TV.
One day, my son went on a long business trip.
Even though they hadn't seen each other for a month, the son called his father every day.
When I got home, my dad had gotten smaller.
The house was a mess, and my father, who couldn't go outside, was eating dog food that he had bought even though he didn't have a dog.


The son now accepts his father, who has become as small as a doll.
The son sits his shrunken father on his lap and sings him a lullaby.
Dad, who had grown smaller before I knew it, even had white hair.
Even if I forget everything else, I don't forget to smile.
The son, who visits his father every day, reads books to him and plays with him, just as his father did to him when he was little.
It's a good thing Dad is always in a good mood.
The son takes his father for a walk on a horse.
I look after, care for, and look after my father as if I were a child learning everything for the first time.


A positive influence that allows us to see care in a different way

Life is a battle against time from the moment of birth.
Rebecca Solnit said, “Time always wins.
“Our victory is merely a postponement,” he said.
From the moment we are born, we must fight against the remaining time.
Grow up without getting sick, go to school, finish your studies, go out to earn money, get married, have children, grow old…
The sweet respite that comes sometimes will be in the time spent with the people around me, in the memories, in the way we look out for each other.
In that sense, father and son are the closest family and have a responsibility to take care of each other.
In our society, where the burden of caring for the elderly primarily falls on women, the virtue of this picture book is that it naturally depicts men taking the initiative in caring for their sons and the process in which a father takes care of his son and then the son takes care of his father.


Maybe it contains our ideals.
It beautifully portrays the difficult burden of a parent's illness, Alzheimer's; it shows a man, not a woman, supporting his parents in an intimate way; and it shows a son's attitude and emotions toward his father's illness, which are examples of a mature family.
All of this is ideal.
There must be picture books that depict reality with extreme vividness, but there is also a need for ideal picture books.
An ideal picture book can show readers a better path and exert a positive influence.


Don't lose your humor even in sad situations

In anticipation of the publication of this book, we requested a written interview with author David Cali.
When asked what prompted him to write the story in this book, he replied that a few years ago, his mother was diagnosed with early-onset dementia, and the whole family was shocked, which led him to write this story.
There is always humor in David Cali's work.
The author's intention is clearly revealed in the passage where the father forgets many skills necessary for human survival, but never forgets to smile.
The author says, “I don’t think life is just sad, happy, or fun.
Even in very happy moments, there can be a little sadness, and even in sad moments, there can be humor.
So, when I write, I always mix these two elements together.” This answer also represents all of his books.


A picture book by artist Jean Julien for the exhibition "Then, There"

This book was illustrated by artist Jean Julien, who was featured in the exhibition 'Then, There' held at Dongdaemun DDP from last fall to early this year.
The exhibition was a huge success, and although he had been a household name for several years, Julien Jang is now a successful artist with a significant Korean fan base.
Jean Julien is a visual artist who lives in France but is represented by an American agency and works globally.
He is an artist who draws for legacy media such as exhibitions, publications, and magazines, and also draws and sells without any boundaries anything that can be drawn on, such as surfboards, various packaging, goods, clothes, and posters, and even produces videos.
For several years, he has been creating a brand, holding exhibitions, and selling clothing with Korean creative director Jaeyoung Heo, and he says he has more fans in Korea than in any other country.
One of the few published picture books by world-renowned artist Jean Julien, My Little Daddy will be a must-have for readers still reminiscing about last year's exhibition.


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