by Kevin Wolf Okchundang Candy by South Korean author Jung-soon Go (translated by Aerin Park) is a very gentle story of the authors’ remembrances of her grandparents (Mr. Go Jadong and Ms. Kim Soonim). Their medical concerns (lung cancer for her grandfather and dementia for her grandmother) are not as important as their loving relationship through Jung-soon’s eyes and colored pencil drawings that move from her childhood to adulthood renditions. Her grandparents were Korean War orphans with three children and their eldest son, Go Sangkwon, being the author’s father. This is a children’s picture book. You won’t learn anything… Read More
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