An essential responsibility in elementary school life: taking care of your belongings.

First grade teachers often talk about taking care of one's own belongings as a habit that children must acquire before entering school.
Because elementary schools are different from kindergartens or daycare centers, it is difficult for teachers to take care of each child's belongings.
Also, if you are a first-year student, you need to have the responsibility and independence to take care of your own belongings.

However, children often make the mistake of losing their belongings.
Not to mention small school supplies like pencils and erasers, it's very easy to lose things like shoe bags and school bags if you leave them lying around.
This is because they still have the habit of being taken care of by adults, so they don't have a strong sense of responsibility to 'take care of their own things.'
The main character of this book, Bang Jun-su, is also that kind of child.
I've already lost several pencil cases and notebooks, and even my shoe bag and school bag.
Of course, at first I would have laughed it off as a mistake.
But as the mistakes keep repeating, Junsu is looked down upon by his family.
Then Junsu comes up with a secret way to manage his own belongings.


Secret to Protecting Your Stuff #1: Attaching Super-Strong Sticky Demon King Name Tags
Secret to protecting your belongings #2: Hanging them tightly with a rope
Secret to protecting your belongings #3: Run like a hawk and find it with eagle eyes.
Secret to protecting your belongings #4: Keep them with the universe's most powerful treasure.

One thing that elementary school students need to learn is that they are not perfect kids who take good care of their belongings.
It is an attitude of trying to take responsibility for one's own things while overcoming mistakes like Junsu.
So, you don't have to be too disappointed or worried about losing things these days.
Because the mistakes I make now will serve as a preventive measure to ensure I take good care of my belongings in the future.
By overcoming mistakes one by one, you can develop a self-directed attitude, a sense of responsibility, and independence.

At the end of the book, you'll find a vivid guide from an elementary school teacher on how to manage your belongings in elementary school.
The first step to taking care of your own belongings is to pack your own school bag.
Because I need to know what's in my backpack so I can take responsibility for it.
For children, protecting their school bags is a way of taking care of their own belongings, and it's their first step toward becoming truly responsible first graders.


Growing up with friends

Junsu makes a close friend.
Choi Yeonjun is tall and wears glasses.
Yeonjun likes soccer, so he yells at Junsu on his way home from school to play soccer.
Junsu once lost his school bag while playing soccer with Yeonjun.
Then one day, a decisive event occurs that will make Junsu and Yeonjun become best friends.
By chance, Junsu drops a stag beetle from his school bag at school.
The children make a fuss and blame Junsu for bringing something disgusting.
At that time, Yeonjun steps in to replace Junsu.


“Isn’t that gross! You don’t even know!”

Even in front of the teacher, he says that he 'cherishes' the stag beetle very much.
With this, the two meet each other's eyes and communicate.
It is about accepting him as a 'true friend' who loves soccer and cares a lot about longicorn beetles.

From that day on, Junsu and Yeonjun became best friends who played soccer every day.
And Junsu discovers a new secret to perfectly protecting his school bag.
That's the secret to 'placing your bag next to your friend's bag'.
Now that I play soccer with my friends, carry my bag with my friends, and go home with my friends, there's no way I'll ever lose my school bag again.

My bag next to Choi Yeonjun's bag.

Choi Yeonjun's bag next to my bag.
Then we can play together and keep our school bags together.
I have a friend who will put my school bags next to me.
That means you're a real first grader.
_From the text

Having a best friend means growing up a step further in elementary school life.
Friends can share their concerns, listen to advice, and positively influence each other to solve problems.
If you've grown enough to maintain friendships with your friends, it means you've also grown enough to take care of your own belongings.


A lively and friendly picture of first grade life.

This book centers around Junsu, and features his family and classmates.
The most impressive characters are Junsu's older sisters.
Junsu has twin sisters, and they tease and nag him whenever he loses something.
Since the same-looking older sisters are nagging in the same way, the effect is doubled.
Junsu's embarrassed expression and appearance while being teased by his mean older sisters are captured in a cute, friendly, and lively drawing.


Also, his best friend Choi Yeonjun is impressive.
Compared to Junsu, who is short and hunched over, Yeonjun is tall and hunched over.
Although they look different, the contrast between Junsu and Yeonjun, who share a friendship because they like the same things, is eye-catching.
It seems to convey the meaning that 'even if we are different, we can still be true friends.'


In this book, in order to focus on Junsu's psychology as he struggles to take good care of his belongings, the surrounding background is boldly omitted or expressed simply.
It also depicts Junsu's efforts and failures in various ways to protect his belongings through a repetitive structure.
Rather than crumbling and becoming frustrated in the face of mistakes, Junsu's pure challenge to overcome this situation more actively was expressed in a positive way.
Above all, I tried to make the props and objects as realistic as possible so that children living in this era can accept them as my story.