Yahoo Village Swimming Pool, Embracing Everyone

After the flood damage, Yahoo Village decided that all cats in the village must learn basic swimming skills for survival.
That's how "Meow Swim School" began, but does "All Meows" really include cats with disabilities? It's only when Kai's younger brother, Dewey, injures his foot in an accident and ends up in a wheelchair that the pool's facilities truly reveal their inability to accommodate "everyone."
And Dewey is the first to notice that fact.
Dewey refuses to go to school and declares that he will not learn to swim.
The cats assume that Dewey, who just stays at home and doesn't want to do anything, is lethargic due to the accident.
Then, when you arrive at the oasis village, you realize it.
Dewey's leg problems make it difficult for him to ride a bus, cross a café threshold, or even enter a swimming pool! Fortunately, Yahoo Village quickly changes to embrace Dewey.
The swimming pool is undergoing major renovations to become a swimming pool for everyone.
With the newly created 'Everyone's Pool', Yahoo Village will undoubtedly be happier than before.


A painting of a fantastic desert landscape

The painter of slavery, who has garnered admiration with his beautiful watercolors, has now captured a desert landscape.
The delicate brushstrokes bring out the texture of the sand and create a vast desert.
Sand sleds galloping like the wind, cats swimming like waves, and the desert night sky filled with stars create a fantastical climax.
True to its reputation as a children's favorite book, this volume will also be one you'll want to keep close by for a long time.

★2025 Gwangju City Book of the Year
★2024 Asan City Book of the Year
★2024 Dongdaemun-gu Book of the Year
★Works exported to Taiwan and Thailand
★Recommended books from the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Children's Library
★Books recommended by the Children's Book Research Association
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★Recommended Morning Reading

Author's Note

“To do what you want, you need not only your own determination and effort, but also the social environment and facilities.
Just like the Yahoo Village cats turned the pool into "Everyone's Pool" so that Dewey could learn to swim whenever he wanted.
“I hope for a world without discrimination between people with and without disabilities.” - Shin Hyun-kyung

“The cats went out to the distant desert.
All of this is thanks to learning how to swim, so learning is a wonderful thing.
I had a lot of fun drawing cats watching stars and swimming in the desert.
I hope we can all join this beautiful journey in our daily lives.
" -Slave land