Issue: June 2007

If A Chicken Stayed For Supper

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

Even though they promise not to leave the den when their mother goes out hunting for a chicken for supper five little foxes are unable to resist going outside to play in the dark.

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Different like Coco

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

Simple text and color illustrations present the life of Coco Chanel.

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Too Many Leprechauns : Or How That Pot O’ Gold Got To The End Of The Rainbow

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

Finn O’Finnegan returns home after a year in Dublin, and when he finds his village taken over by leprechauns, he must devise a way to get them to leave without making them angry.

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Hand Games

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

A collection of photos, in which hands look like athletics in different types of the sports competitions.

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Fiona’s Luck

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

A clever woman named Fiona must pass the leprechaun king’s tests when she tries to get back all the luck he has locked away from humans. Illustration done in acrylic, watercolor, and gel medium on coventry rag.

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Dexter Bexley And The Big Blue Beastie

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

After running into a big blue beastie with his scooter, Dexster tries to come up with increasingly inventive ideas to keep the beastie from eating him.

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Thieves Like Us

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

A mysterious benefactor hand-picks a group of teen geniuses to follow a set of clues leading to the secrets of everlasting life, secrets which they must steal and for which they risk being killed.

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The Wrong Hands

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

Fourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair, born with mysterious hands and a strange secret, finds his life further complicated.

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The Remarkable Life And Times Of Eliza Rose

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

Thrown out of her home by her stepmother in 1670, fifteen-year-old Eliza Rose becomes a companion to Nell Gwyn, a mistress of Charles II, and learns a surprising truth about her parentage.

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Time Bomb

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

Now grown, Andy tells the story of the summer of 1949 when, embittered after enduring injustice at their English school and disappointed by the adults in their lives, he and his friends wrestle with thoughts of revenge and deal with several life-changing secrets.

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