Gaja Gaja Hangul Nara

가자 가자 한글 나라

Author: 홍 솔

ISBN : 9791195408009 56쪽 | 195 * 205 * 4 mm / 161 g Gaja Gaja Hangul Nara (Namuwagaji, 2015) is a poetry collection for people beginning to learn Hangul. Written and illustrated by the author, an elementary school teacher, it gathers poems actually used in the classroom to teach students who had not yet mastered Hangul and multicultural students who had transferred in from abroad. Built from familiar words and repeating rhythms, the poems are designed so that learners can read full sentences at the very moment they're learning individual letters—helping them approach Hangul with confidence and enjoyment. Soft, warm watercolor illustrations accompany the poems, allowing words and sentences to flow naturally into a single scene. Woven throughout the illustrations are myths and folktales from both East and West: the sirens of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the merman 저인 (Jeoin), the three-legged crow (삼족오), the moon toad, the magpies' bridge (오작교) that unites the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, and the three pomegranate seeds of Hades. These details offer moments of discovery not only for young learners but for the adults reading alongside them. A Final Page the Reader Completes The last two pages of this book are left blank. Printed on fine Mont Blanc paper, this blank space is where readers write and draw their own words and pictures. The idea grew out of the author's own experience of leafing through a book from childhood and discovering scribbles left in the margins—a moment of surprised delight that inspired this distinctive design. It sets aside a moment for a single poetry collection to become another story, completed by the reader's own hand. Born in the Classroom, Now in the Textbooks The poems in this collection were used directly in the classroom to teach children with special needs, multicultural backgrounds, and low foundational literacy—children who had not yet mastered Hangul. Two of the poems, "여행을 떠나요" (Let's Go on a Trip) and "가족" (Family), were included in a national curriculum textbook for special education schools—a meaningful outcome for poems that began in one classroom and went on to reach many more children. Recommended For Young children and toddlers just beginning to learn Hangul Teachers working with multicultural families and students who have transferred in from abroad Teachers in special education and foundational literacy support Parents who want to enjoy a picture book rich with myth and folklore alongside their child Learning Hangul through familiar rhythm, encountering myth and folklore along the way, and finally leaving behind a story of one's own — Gaja Gaja Hangul Nara turns a first step into learning Hangul into an experience worth remembering.