"Midnight Moonlight Restaurant" is a fantasy fairy tale about what happened at the "Moonlight Restaurant" where people buy delicious food with bad memories. The mysterious and charming characters and the unique setting of a restaurant where you can eat delicious food if you have bad memories arouse curiosity and increase the immersion of the story. After Yeon-woo enjoys a delicious custard pudding topped with chocolate syrup, the “bad memories” disappear. The narrative that flows while questioning what the bad memories are that disappears repeatedly takes unexpected twists and turns, helping children's readers to easily approach the formidable topic of "Will I be happy if I get rid of all the bad memories?"
☞ Selection and award details
- The 7th Biryongso Literary Award Grand Prize

Testimonials
Jinkyung Kim (Children's Writer)
The ability of the writer to create a touching story by introducing fantasy so that children can approach it easily and funly with the difficult material and subject of human life based on memory is amazing.

Riri Kim (Children's story writer)
Mysterious and charming characters and sweet food. The atmosphere is exotic and fantastic, but the emotion contained is extremely Korean and the subject matter is heavy. The author put the material that does not seem to go well with the heavy theme into the work with concise and neat sentences as if stitched stitch by stitch. The last message that you have to face and overcome bad memories, not just forget them, also resonates deeply for a long time.

Kim Ji-eun (children's and youth literature critic)
A beautiful story that readers of fairy tales are waiting for. It is a work that makes you think about how far children's fairy tales can contain literary implications. I would be happy if children and adults could talk together about what we can feel through this work.

Published Date: March 15, 2018

88 Pages | 288g | 155*223*15mm