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Wonderfully illustrated, this popular children's tale is part of a collection of Korean folk tales published with the hope that foreigners, especially children, will gain a better understanding of Korean culture. It's summertime and a granny is about to be eaten by a tiger. She convinces him to wait until the fall so she can harvest her crop of red beans and make him red bean porridge. Harvest comes and she fulfills her promise. While making the porridge, she becomes very sad thinking about how the tiger will eat her after he finishes his bowl of porridge. Her tears are noticed by different things in her household such as a chestnut, turtle, straw mat, mortar and even some dog poo! They promise to help her if she gives them each a bowl of her delicious red bean porriddge. When the tiger shows up expecting a tasty dinner of red bean porridge and Granny, her friends come to her rescue.

《红豆粥婆婆》一书中的图画给读者一种全新的视觉感受。乍看书的封面，一个笑容可掬端着红豆粥的老婆婆，形象立体生动，衣褶发丝几近乱真，实物背景，你会以为自己看到的仅仅是一本摄影图书！可是书的扉页却是一幅手绘水墨的小图！这到底是一本什么样的图画书呢？想找到答案，还是亲自去阅读吧！