媽媽商店
Mommy for Sale
內容介紹
Rights Sold: Korean
Representation: world rights excluding Spanish, simplified Chinese
One day after school, a boy returns home to find that his mother has disappeared. His little sister, busy playing with her toys, has no idea where she has gone. When darkness falls and their mother still has not returned, the siblings set out to search for her. After visiting all her usual places without success, they stumble upon a mysterious shop: a shop that sells mothers. Could their own mother be inside?
Mommy for Sale is an imaginative parent-child story, blending humor, suspense, and fantasy. Author Pan takes readers on a brother and sister’s search for their missing mother, and into a startling confrontation between children’s expectations and a mother’s desire to be herself. Illustrator Lin vividly captures the characters’ shifting emotions through richly layered compositions, comic-style panels, dramatic close-ups, and contrasts in scale.
Size: approx. 23 x 25 cm
作者介紹
Lin Lian-En (林廉恩) works primarily with mixed-media collage, acrylic paint, and water-soluble crayons, while continuing to explore new artistic media. She enjoys depicting cities, landscapes, and plants, and her work is largely inspired by her immediate feelings and personal experiences.
Her honors include the 2014 American 3×3 Contemporary Illustration Award; selection for the Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition in 2015, 2018, and 2022; the 2021 Bologna Ragazzi Award in the Fiction category; and Taiwan’s 2021 Golden Tripod Award. Her picture books include Hurry! Hurry!, HOME, Notes on Motherhood, and A Tree Falls in a Forest.
Pan Chia-Hsin (潘家欣) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose work spans both words and images. She has received numerous literary honors, including the Lin Rung-San Literary Award and the Yang Mu Poetry Award. Her publications include eight poetry collections and the essay collection. She has also illustrated several books, including The Crab in the Dark, Tiger Aunt, and Children's Broadcasting Station: A Reader of Taiwanese Nursery Rhymes from the Japanese Colonial Period, Vol. 2.