The Orange Horse
橘色的馬
Overview
Rights Sold: simplified Chinese, English (Asia), world English, Spanish (Spain, Peru), Swedish, Thai
English Translation Available
A picture book that sparkles with deep interpersonal connections.
The orange horse has been in the big city for a very long time. He is desperate to find his long-lost brother, but the only clue he has is a half-torn photo.
"Anyone with orange skin, fast speed, or black hair might be my brother,"he says. An orange house, a very fast car, and a lion with black hair thus come to meet him, but none of them is the brother he is longing for. Finally, he meets a brown horse, with whom he becomes best friends.
Surprisingly, the brown horse also has a half-torn photo of his missing brother. However, their photos fail to fit with each other. The orange horse feels very depressed, and so does the brown horse. Out of anger, the brown horse takes out his scissors to cut the photo in half. However, after calming down, he collages the two photos into a complete one. With a smile, he says to the orange horse, "Now, we are brothers."
The Orange Horse is a tender work that, through the author's lovely and childlike illustrations, conveys the importance of interpersonal care, trust, and mutual understanding.
Size: 20 x 27.2 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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