“I am a tree that glows. One day, you may also be glowing on my branches. At that time, what day would you like to stay on? Could it be – every day?”   Life is made of countless perfect and imperfect moments. We can’t decide people we may encounter and things that may happen, but we may decide what kind of mood to face the highs and lows of life. It is always yourself to decides whether you are happy or not.     Selected in Bologna Illustrators Exhibition, Meng-Yun Chiang chooses to use bright color to tell readers about this story about a tree and about every one of us.  We are hoping that the story may help readers accept the sorrows and happiness of life, and seize the time of life, to explore moments that worth celebrating and memorizing.        

Rights sold: China   Blossoms of Flowers in the Darkness, Rebirth of a Rock   A story about the Elegance of Silence and the Power of Calm. A rock on the mountain top always claims that it’s the number one of the world. An unexpected earthquake changed its destiny from the moment it dropped down from the top to river. One day, an old stonemason discovered it and found it an extraordinary material of the kind and decided to carve on with it. The rock dreamed day after day that it may become the real masterpiece, but all of a sudden, the old stonemason disappeared!   The authored described that he was once in the downsides of life, and by chance the image of Kshitigarbha with Blossoms just crossed his mind. He started to write down the story and in creation of the work, he found the value of life again. For the illustrator, when he first read about the story, he was touched by the tenderness of the story, so he expressed the story with gentle and soft tone in the illustrations. The combination of the fascinating story with the softness of the illustrations will inspire the power inside of you. When you close your eyes, the story will calm you down and light you up from the lost and dull of life.

Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese, Japanese The little frog feels particularly alone on rainy days. On such days, he used to race with his dad and mom to the top of the hill, waiting for the rain to fall. Mother is always the one who wins the game. Now the little frog’s mother is gone. Neither his Dadnor the little frog want to go to the empty hill. One day the teacher asks everyone to write a sentence: “My mom is like…” It is an easy sentence that everyone finishes it soon. Only the little frog thinks the sentence over and over, feeling that he almost forgets what his mother looks like. He visits the hill again with hope to think of a word that suits his mother.   Size: 25 x 21cm    

Rights sold: English (US)   Monkey Grandpa stopped on the halfway to the mountain and took a nap, and was awaken by the teardrop of the little bird. The little bird told him about his sorrow of being laughed at because of his voice. However, the voice of the little bird turned to be the strength and power for Monkey Grandpa to face the life and the new journey...   The illustration and text of this book is beautifully illustrated like a song, which want to give the readers the feeling of a singing a song and bring the melody of the memory to the mind. It is a picture book that people will remember.   Size: 20 x 28 cm