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Part 1 | Becoming Friends with Your Cooking Tools

1.
An Adventure Journey to the Kitchen - "In the Kitchen Deep at Night"
2.
A Chopstick Buddy, Together or Alone - "Chopstick Buddy"
3.
Kneading the dough with your hands - "Kneading and Stretching"
4.
Round Frying Pan - "Guri and Gura's Bread Making"
5.
What Spoons Do Better Than Anyone Else - "Spoon"
6.
A Feast of Traditional Tools - "Injeolmi Wedding Day"

Part 2 | Seasonal Foods

1.
Cherry Blossom Popcorn for a Beautiful Spring Day - "Cherry Blossom Popcorn"
2.
When a Potato Meets a Friend - "Potatoes Meet"
3.
A bite of refreshing watermelon - "One bite, one bite"
4.
Ice Cream Walk - A Snail's Walk
5.
What does moon sorbet taste like? - Moon Shabet
6.
A Farmer's Sweat in a Grain of Rice - "Momomomomo"
7.
The dates are ripe and red - 『A Date』
8.
Apples in the bountiful autumn - "Apples Crunch!"
9.
Everyone's a sweet potato! - "Sweet Potato"
10.
Ride the Tangerine Train through the Snow - Tangerine Train

Part 3 | Eat everything, get healthy!

1.
Stop being a picky eater! - "I never eat tomatoes."
2.
The Round Bean's Transformation - "Soybeans, Green Beans, Bean Sprouts"
3.
Vegetable Health Running Competition - "Vegetables Are the Best"
4.
Let's make some bubbling soybean paste stew - "Soybean Paste Stew"
5.
It's delicious when you eat everything, and it's fun when you eat together - "Fox Bibimbap"
6.
What would become of the bean that wanted to become a cloud? - "Delicious Cloud Bean"
7.
The fun of choosing - "Sushi is Round and Round"
8.
If you eat well, you will become a handsome prince and princess - 『A bowl of rice, done!』

Part 4 | Invitation to a Special Day

1.
A Bowl of Virtue - The Heart of Rice Cake Soup
2.
To You, Starting anew - "Making Up Your Mind"
3.
You can't miss out on a fun picnic - "Roll-Roll Kimbap"
4.
Pizza Making with Your Body - "Pizza Play with Dad"
5.
Cheers and celebrations - "Cake Party"
6.
Sharing the Joy of Birth - Mongdol Seaweed Soup
7.
Kimchi Making Day - "Kimchi is the Best"
8.
Come out, come out! - "Garaetteok"

Reviewer's note

32 special picture books that help you discover and learn about the world through food.

This book introduces 32 interesting and beautiful picture books that help children encounter, play with, and learn about the world through food, with the hope that our children will become familiar with a variety of foods, eat a variety of foods, and grow up happy and healthy.


In Part 1, 'Becoming Friends with Cooking Utensils', we go on an adventure to the kitchen, a space that stimulates various senses such as taste, touch, and hearing, with picture books such as 'In the Kitchen at Deep Night', 'Spoon', and 'Chopstick Partner', and hear stories about cooking utensils such as spoons, chopsticks, and frying pans.
Part 2, 'Foods to Meet in the Seasons', features picture books that stimulate the imagination, such as 'Cherry Blossom Popcorn', 'Potatoes Met', 'Apple Going Boom!', and 'Tangerine Train', allowing us to vividly experience the blooming spring, hot summer, bountiful autumn, and snowy winter.


Part 3, 'Eat Everything, Eat Everything, Get Healthy!' contains picture books with fun and wise stories that will make you want to eat everything, such as 'I Never Eat Tomatoes', 'Soybeans and Green Beans, Bean Sprouts', 'Fox Bibimbap', and 'A Bowl of Rice in a jiffy!' Part 4, 'Invitation to a Special Day' contains picture books that make you think about the meaning of foods eaten on special days, such as 'The Heart of Rice Cake Soup', 'Making Up Your Mind', 'Roll Up Kimbap', 'Mongdol Seaweed Soup', and 'Gaaraetteok'.


In addition to the 32 picture books, you can find a list of 'Picture Books to Read Together' at the end of each chapter, allowing you to enjoy picture books with food stories.


32 Recipes to Stimulate Your Senses

Children learn a lot through cooking—seeing, touching, smelling, and tasting.
Not only do fine motor skills develop through activities such as slicing, cutting, and using tools, but mathematical concepts are also developed through estimating the amount of ingredients and cooking time.
By learning the names and shapes of ingredients and expressing their tastes, language skills develop, and by becoming familiar with food ingredients, prejudices about certain foods can also change.


This book contains 32 recipes that children can make themselves, based on the picture books introduced in each chapter.
After reading the picture book, "Potatoes Met," we made and ate "Frog Potato Salad Morning Bread." After reading "Momomomo," we thought about the sweat of farmers and made "Rice Bat Saecham."
After reading 『Fox Bibimbap』, we make a ‘Bibimbap Croffle’ that doesn’t require fire, and after reading 『Eat Your Heart』, we make a ‘Heart Burger’ with all our heart.


Choose a recipe that is safe and fun for children to make, and explain the process with photos and short text so that children can easily follow along.
A table listing the properties and effects of ingredients used in cooking is provided at the back of the book, so that you can refer to it when cooking with your child.


70 exciting games to awaken your five senses

Play is essential for children's growth.
Children have fun, become healthy, and develop social skills through play.
This book guides teachers through fun and beneficial play processes that can be practically implemented with children in early childhood education settings.
Based on picture books, it kindly provides explanations, activity photos, and tips on various areas of play, such as word play, math and manipulation play, traditional play, food play, and art experience play.


In the book, children read ‘Chopstick Partner’ and play ‘Chopsticks’ and ‘Build a Chopstick Tower’, and read ‘Injeolmi’s Wedding Day’ and do ‘Injeolmi and Bachelor’s Dance Wedding Scene Puzzle’.
Read 『Moon Shabet』 and think about the Earth's environment while playing the game of 'Give the Moon Back Its Light'. Read 『Tangerine Train』 and play the game of 'Chuck Chuck Chuck Tangerine Train' and the game of 'Tangerine Peel'.
After reading 『Sushi Goes Round and Round』, play the game of ‘Sushi Delivery~’ and ‘Swirling Sushi Dominoes’.


All of the games are ones that the authors have personally practiced in educational settings, and the authors summarize what happened and what they felt during the actual activities in the closing notes of each chapter, allowing readers to get a glimpse of what might happen when playing with children.
By reading, cooking, and playing with this one book, children will learn and discover on their own, enjoying themselves, and growing up healthily.