[DeepL Translation - needs review] 35 Fantastic Animals from Korea to be Featured in Children's Books for the First Time!
Brought to life in myths, legends, and folklore
myths, legends, and folk tales!
Korean myths, legends, and folk tales are filled with mysterious fantasy animals. "The Korean Fantastic Animal Book is the first children's book to introduce fantastical animals from Korean classics. Auspicious animals, lucky animals, dreaming dragons and dragons, animals that connect...
Gem of a Book
The book is formatted into various themed sections (i.e. guardians, dangerous) of about 4-6 creatures each, and each creature gets 4 pages (2 pages with 1 short paragraph, then 2 pages of short paragraphs). Each ‘creature feature’ gives a general background of its appearance, characteristics, habits, etc. and a short retelling of a historical story or myth where it appears. It also relates each creature to a similar one from various other cultures (which I found helpful).
Because of the layout this book was great to read even when I was short on time and/or feeling a bit burnt out – the pictures are super cute too!
The grammar wasn’t hard (I’d say nothing above low intermediate) and while some of the vocabulary could be a little more unusual/unordinary the same words were used repeatedly throughout the whole volume, which made picking up those new words easy and enjoyable.