Where Are the Tickets?
車票去哪裡了？
Overview
Rights Sold: English, Korean, Estonian
The Bus is about to leave, so the bus driver asks the passengers to take out their tickets. Suddenly, a blast of wind blows everyone's tickets far away. The driver decides right away that he should get back the tickets. Therefore, the passengers follow the driver and embark on their journey, from the city to the incredible places! They ascend the mountains, climb the cliffs, and pass the seaside and the snow; they meet the fairy, the sea dragon king, and the snow monster… they even break into the racing tracks! At last, in the place where the sun sets, they find the tickets on a tall tree. Will they get back the tickets without a hitch? What amazing scene will there be on the tree? Hsu-Kung Liu uses orange and blue as his main colors throughout the book. His brushstrokes are simple and of childlike fun, and by using lively lines and large areas of color, he successfully presents a sense of vibrancy. His unique sense of humor makes this seemingly unrestrained story a little more philosophical and warm. (sourced from Feng Zikai Chinese Children’s Picture Book Award website)
Size: 21.6 x 28.5 cm
Author(s)
Hsu-Kung Liu (劉旭恭) was born in Taipei in 1973. A graduate of the Civil Engineering Department at National TaiwanUniversity. He started to work in picture book illustration after taking part in the "Lucy Chen Handmade Picture BookClassroom”. He is the author and 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. 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.