★ Rights Sold: Spanish, Chinese Simplified rights

★ Winner of the Best Children's Book at the 2011 Bologna Children's Book Fair!

★ Recommended by the Korea Publishing Culture Promotion Institute!
★A Selected Book 2014 for Gimhae City, Korea

★A Selected Book 2014 for Gochang County Office, Korea

★ Indifference, lack of understanding, and resulting invisibility. Encourage stepping out of one's own world, starting small, and giving a little care and love to others.

★ The book's creative inspiration stems from a documentary the author watched a few years ago. The author hopes to use this book to showcase a world different from their own surroundings, calling on everyone to build a better global village together.

★ Helps children understand the diverse cultures of the world, to view different countries, ethnic groups, and cultures on Earth with an attitude of understanding and respect, and to cultivate in children a good character of caring for others and a broad mind with a global perspective.

★ The book's illustrations depict desolate, lonely, and sparse scenes, using sparse and curved lines to convey a sense of vagueness and alienation, reflecting the situations of various young protagonists and highlighting the book's main themes: waiting and helplessness. This reflects the real lives of children in other parts of the world. Children need to understand the world beyond themselves, to understand the outside world in order to better understand themselves, and to learn to become better people.

Soli lives in South Korea, his dream is to be a painter; Panier works in a blanket factory in India, he works fourteen hours a day; Alena lives in Romania, she lives alone in a sewer on the street for three years. …Soli was surprised to hear these stories, and he asked, "Is this true? "It's true, though it doesn't sound very real, but it's our true story."

This is a picture book that focuses on a diverse world, so that children understand that people living in different countries can be so different. I hope that everyone, whether adults or children, will face up to and pay attention to these unfamiliar realities, get out of their own world, start small, and give others a little care and love.

Kyungsoo Kang
Kyungsoo Kang is a South Korean author and illustrator, a recipient of the prestigious Bologna Ragazzi Award for children's literature. He has a passion for doodling and daydreaming and enjoys spending time with his son, playing and bonding. His works, known for their whimsical and lively charm, have endeared him to young readers. He has authored over 50 books, including 'Is This Really True?', 'My Dad', 'My Mom', and many more.

His representative work, the 'Code Name' series, a South Korean young detective graphic novel, has been honored with 'Book of the Year' and 'Outstanding Children's Book' awards in South Korea and consistently topped the bestseller charts.