When I Go to School
我去上學的時候
Overview
"Mom, did you cry when I went to school?"
"I only cried for a little bit."
“After I started school, Mom misses me a lot—and I miss her too.
While I’m at school listening to stories, eating lunch, and taking a nap, Mom is working hard, and maybe she feels a little lonely.
But that’s okay.
All of our missing turns into joy when we see each other again. Can’t wait to be with Mom soon!”
This is a picture book where longing is visible—and so is love.
A gentle story that offers strength to mothers, helping them feel reassured as they watch their children grow.
Unlike most books that focus only on children’s separation anxiety, this story tenderly speaks to mothers as well, voicing love and longing through a child’s gentle words. This is a picture book that comforts not only the child but also the mother—a perfect choice for parent-child reading time.
The illustrations were in the shortlist for the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition. The illustrations are printed with special fluorescent colors, casting a unique hue that feels like a child’s gentle whisper—quietly tracing the unseen, yet deeply felt, emotional thread between mother and child.
Author(s)
Shu-Ting Chen (諶淑婷), former newspaper reporter and now is a freelance writer. She cares strongly about the rights of children and animals and the living environment of the future. Her publications A Million Kisses that she collaborated with Deer Jan has been published in Korea. Her other works include The Road to a Warm and Productive Life: Mother and Child, Adults as Partners, Dancing the Slow Dance Together and Mums Swap Diaries: Same Parenting Challenges, Different Thinking.
Chen Pei-Hsiu (陳沛珛) was previously an archaeological illustrator at the Academia Sinica before going freelance, and her illustrations have been published in magazines, newspapers, and picture books. She has been shortlisted twice for the Prize for Young Talent at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, as well as twice at 3×3 International Illustration Awards. Her graphic novel For the Time Being has been published in French, and she also has published several picture books and one of them, Still Young, Still New, has been published in Korea.
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