Rain
雨
Overview
Rights sold: English, Simplified Chinese (China), Simplified Chinese (Malaysia)
Won the Golden Tripod Awards, Openbook Book of the Year, Best Children’s Book Award
Selected for Hope Reading Project Top 100 and Reading List for Primary and Middle School Students
Growing up in the temple, Little Monk practices calligraphy everyday by writing a single character 雨 (rain). As he writes, slowly, his agitated heart grows calm and quiet. Written with effort and sincerity, the sheets and sheets of 雨 eventually transform into sweet rain, nourishing the parched earth and soothing sorrowful souls. A tale of gratitude, compassion, faith, and meditation.
Size: 21 x 29.7 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.