A Trip to Turtle Land
到烏龜國去
Overview
Rights Sold: simplified Chinese, Swedish, Korean
★ Hsu-Kung Liu selected for the Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition and 2026 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
★ Swedish edition nominated for Sweden's Peter Pan Award.
What happens when a rabbit visits a land where everything moves at a turtle's pace?
Little Rabbit sets off on an exciting trip to Turtle Land — but nothing quite goes as expected. Waiting for a meal takes six hours. Watching a movie takes eleven. A train might not arrive for a whole month. And getting home? That could take six months or more!
A humorous and playful reimagining of “The Tortoise and the Hare”, this book transforms the rivals into friends. Through their simple yet philosophical journey together, children are invited to explore the sense of wonder that comes with traveling somewhere new, while also reflecting on deeper themes of time, friendship, and mutual understanding.
With a distinctive palette of blacks, grays, and soft muted yellows, Hsu-Kung Liu transforms each page into a quiet, starlit world full of surprises. More than a story about a rabbit and a turtle, this is a picture book about friendship, patience, and learning to see the world through someone else's eyes.
Size: 21.5 x 23.5 cm
Author(s)
Hsu-Kung Liu (劉旭恭) is born in Taipei in 1973. A graduate of the Civil Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. He started to work in picture book illustration after taking part in the “Lucy Chen Handmade Picture Book Classroom”. He is the Author & Illustrator of 18 children books so far. He received an honorary mention for Hsin Yi Children’s Literature Prize in 2002 for I Really Want to Eat a Durian, winning the prize in 2006 with his book Excuse Me, Will My Feet Touch the Bottom?. His book Whose Stop Is This? (for kids 0-3 years old) won the Chen Bochui International Prize for Children’s Literature in 2014 and was subsequently selected for the 2015 and 2017 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition. He is nominated for the 2026 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. His works have been selected for exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. English, Thai, Japanese, French, Swedish, Korean, and Estonian rights have been sold for some of his works.
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