“The tangerine train, the tangerine train is coming in now.”
Warmly embracing our hearts
A sweet and sour winter fantasy begins!

A mysterious journey filled with the sweet and sour scent of citrus!

One evening, a mysterious citrus train arrives at Grandma Mina's window, emitting a sweet and sour fragrance.
Mina, as if led, naturally buys a ticket to the snowy station she found by chance in the tangerine basket and boards the tangerine train.
The train runs on rails stretching into the sky and soon reaches a white snowy country.

It was a wonderful and exciting fantasy world that children dream of.
There are giant tangerines that are taller than you, and you can have fun sledding with cute snow friends and tangerine peels, and the night sky is beautifully decorated with beautiful tangerine fireworks that explode in a burst.
The snow country, snow friends, and fireworks that Mina encounters here are all things that children love and are objects of imagination and curiosity.
Moreover, the tangerine train, which connects the worlds of reality and imagination, vividly brings the fantastical fun of this picture book to life, so that anyone who reads this book will immediately embark on a journey into a delightful world of imagination.

Grandma and Mina's warm intergenerational empathy

The reason this book feels warm is because it contains a warm story about Mina and her grandmother, who are as soft as snow.
At first, Mina felt a little unfamiliar with her grandmother's house.
You can guess their relationship just by looking at them sitting far apart on the sofa.
Then, on a trip aboard the Tangerine Train, Mina meets a girl who resembles her grandmother.
And the two become good friends and have fun adventures in the citrus forest.
Perhaps it was because of a fun adventure with a girl who resembled her grandmother? Through their fragrant winter journey, Grandma and Mina become even closer.
And even the little details, like the grandmother's expression that seems to know everything and the photos in the house, show such warm feelings.
This picture book brings to mind the warm family love that resonates between the generations of Grandma and Mina.


A cozy winter landscape drawn with delicate colored pencils.

The winter scenery in “Tangerine Train” feels particularly warm, contrary to the image of a cold season.
The reason is that the unique sensibility of colored pencils is well reflected in the picture.
The painting, completed by coloring it several times with colored pencils, has a sense of three-dimensionality due to the layers, while at the same time creating a warm feeling.

Additionally, the appearance of cute characters and the fun elements that appear throughout the work enrich the content of the book.
There are elements hidden here and there that make you want to keep your eyes open, such as the cat that appears in the first chapter of the book becoming the driver of the tangerine train, and the snow friends that Mina was happily playing with appearing as snowmen on the last page.
Because of this, it is a picture book that you will enjoy with new charm every time you read it, once or twice.