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Book Gorae

Book Gorae, the publishing imprint of DreamingKite Co., is an award-winning Korean children’s publisher specializing in picture books that combine storytelling with innovative multimedia experiences. Since 2015, it has published over 220 titles and actively expanded its works into global markets.

Its achievements include the first Korean picture book acquired by Macmillan USA and winning the 2025 BolognaRagazzi CrossMedia Award—a first for an Asian publisher—with Star Papa. Book Gorae continues to extend its IP across interactive apps, AR books, immersive video, and animation, bringing Korean children’s stories to audiences worldwide.

Titles

 Perilla-topia (Kkaennip-topia)

Perilla-topia (Kkaennip-topia)

Noah is a Korean American teenager in St. Louis, the only child of a Korean mother and an American father named Mike.

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The Star Papa

The Star Papa

A star farmer patiently nurtures magical seeds through darkness, storms, and meteors until they bloom into stars ready to illuminate the distant world.

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The Elephant Got Stuck!

The Elephant Got Stuck!

Suji secretly brings her beloved elephant to school, where classmates turn a doorway disaster into a joyful lesson about friendship, teamwork, and belonging.

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The Star Miner Child

The Star Miner Child

A young girl pans for gold with her siblings, imagining each tiny fleck as a star carrying food, medicine, education, dignity, and hope.

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Daddy, When Will You Come?

Daddy, When Will You Come?

War forces a bear family to flee without their ambulance-driver father, leaving the children to endure displacement while waiting and hoping for reunion.

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The Tiger Came Back

The Tiger Came Back

A pregnant tiger searches for a safe home in a country that celebrates tiger images everywhere but leaves no room for living tigers.

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River, Stay With Me

River, Stay With Me

A child watches a beloved riverside disappear under development, learning that progress can erase ecosystems, memories, community, and the places that shape us.

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Heart of the Wall

Heart of the Wall

A roadside wall silently receives animals struck by cars, becoming a witness whose stillness turns grief, helplessness, and remembrance into unexpected, enduring compassion.

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The Old Boat

The Old Boat

An aging ship sails one final journey through fear and storm, carrying memories of strength, loss, dignity, and the longing to rest peacefully.

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The Prairie

The Prairie

Across an open grassland, life runs, rests, disappears, and returns, revealing nature as an endless rhythm of birth, death, silence, and renewal again.

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Like a Tree

Like a Tree

A growing ginkgo tree watches generations of apartment life unfold, discovering that time, loneliness, connection, and memory deepen quietly with every season passing.

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The Pinch Runner

The Pinch Runner

A patient pinch runner waits beyond the spotlight until one decisive moment proves that preparation, teamwork, speed, and quiet dedication can change everything.

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The Black Chameleon

The Black Chameleon

A black chameleon who never changes color discovers beneath a starry night that difference can become beauty when he embraces himself exactly as-is.

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The Magic Scissors

The Magic Scissors

Running late for school, Geon uses magic scissors to cut away rules, transforming an ordinary morning into a joyful playground powered by imagination.

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The Gorilla Hair Salon

The Gorilla Hair Salon

A haircut-hating boy enters a mysterious salon and discovers gorillas secretly transforming discarded human hair into dazzling fur fashions, friendship, and unexpected wonder.

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Tomacula

Tomacula

A lonely thirteen-year-old befriends a tomato-eating vampire, then faces a predatory teacher whose dark plans force him to choose courage, trust, and survival.

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One Day

One Day

A rabbit searching for her missing father joins other animals, discovering shared loss, displacement, and the hidden ecological cost of human convenience today.

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What’s That Sound?

What’s That Sound?

Following mysterious noises through an ordinary afternoon, a curious child discovers nature’s hidden music and learns that wonder begins by stopping to listen.

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The Wind-Up Kid

The Wind-Up Kid

A speed-obsessed boy removes his winding key and discovers that slowing down reveals friendship, freedom, ordinary beauty, and a life beyond constant competition.

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Knock, Knock, Knock

Knock, Knock, Knock

Joy follows playful clues from friend to friend, searching for a mysterious piano so she can give her brother a heartfelt birthday song.

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The Happy President, José Mujica

The Happy President, José Mujica

José Mujica rises from hardship and imprisonment to lead Uruguay with humility, proving that justice, simplicity, and compassion can define true political power.

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The Day the Earth Split in Two

The Day the Earth Split in Two

After catastrophe divides their world, animals adapt to opposite climates, then reunite transformed, discovering recognition and belonging can survive profound visible difference together.

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My Summer Days

My Summer Days

A carefree summer at a country stream becomes a treasury of friendship, nature, play, and memories that continue glowing long after childhood ends.

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The Tiger's Candy Bouquet

The Tiger's Candy Bouquet

Three candy-loving pig brothers challenge a tiger, and the youngest uses courage, quick thinking, and teamwork to rescue his siblings and escape danger.

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It’s Okay to Go Slowly

It’s Okay to Go Slowly

A boy without a dream discovers through family adventures that life need not be rushed, and joy can grow at its own pace.

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Secret Friend

Secret Friend

Behind masks and classroom partitions, a lonely child finds a secret friend and discovers imagination, play, and connection can survive even isolating times.

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Demian

Demian

Sinclair moves between light and darkness, guided by mysterious Demian, until guilt, fear, and loneliness crack open a path toward his authentic self.

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My Name is Quima

My Name is Quima

A young cockroach survivor named Quima faces extermination, prejudice, and leadership, learning that dignity, courage, and coexistence matter even for the smallest lives.

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A Ghost Lives in My House 1

A Ghost Lives in My House 1

A stubborn house ghost sets out to terrify modern humans, but his misfit spirit team becomes the unlikely protector of children facing fears more dangerous than the supernatural.

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A Ghost Lives in My House 2: The Monsters Visit

A Ghost Lives in My House 2: The Monsters Visit

Korean house ghosts confront foreign monsters seeking supremacy, but rivalry becomes courage when they uncover cruelty, free stolen souls, and choose coexistence together.

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The Cat Detective Agency

The Cat Detective Agency

A gifted stray cat opens a detective agency, solving neighborhood mysteries and learning that courage, kindness, and helping others can create a home.

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Pudardak, the Rooster Who Found His Courage

Pudardak, the Rooster Who Found His Courage

A boastful rooster journeys with unlikely animal companions, discovering that true courage grows through empathy, friendship, responsibility, and finding family beyond fear together.

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The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

After eighty-four empty days, Santiago battles a giant marlin and relentless sharks, preserving dignity, hope, and courage even when victory is stripped away.

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I Am a Steamed Bun

I Am a Steamed Bun

A proud steamed bun faces newer rivals by revealing the patient craft, tradition, and care that make his humble identity worth celebrating proudly.

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Books

Books

Two girls from different social worlds discover friendship through shared reading, storytelling, and a handmade book in Joseon-era Korea, where stories build bridges.

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The Last Dodo

The Last Dodo

A trusting dodo faces extinction as outsiders disrupt Mauritius, revealing how human greed can destroy delicate ecosystems and how memory can inspire protection.

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My Dinosaur Age

My Dinosaur Age

When Mom transforms into a Tyrannosaurus, Seojun responds with tenderness, play, and patience, discovering that love can communicate beyond ordinary spoken words beautifully.

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The Farmer of the Desert

The Farmer of the Desert

A lone farmer keeps planting seeds in barren desert sands, and one storm-scattered seed proves that patient hope can grow beyond visible failure.

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My Mom Wears Underpants Over Her Pants

My Mom Wears Underpants Over Her Pants

Embarrassed by her yoga-loving mother, a child discovers on sports day that difference can become strength, pride, love, and joyful lasting family confidence.

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Doo-Doo, the Hundredth Sheep

Doo-Doo, the Hundredth Sheep

Always overlooked as the hundredth sheep, Doo-Doo invents a new bedtime role, discovering her purpose by helping an exhausted world finally rest peacefully.

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If Only I Could Change

If Only I Could Change

Chased by a dog, a cat transforms again and again, only to discover that every new form brings problems, and self-acceptance brings courage.

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Odubangjeong: How to Chase Away Silly Ghosts

Odubangjeong: How to Chase Away Silly Ghosts

Children discover Korea’s mythical guardians, learning that courage, wisdom, laughter, and ancient protective spirits can turn frightening ghost stories into empowering cultural adventures.

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I Am a Firefly

I Am a Firefly

A firefly who believes it is a star discovers that even the smallest light can shine brightly, find belonging, and illuminate darkness together.

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Lucy’s Song

Lucy’s Song

A nameless lost star meets a gentle cat, receives the name Lucy, and rediscovers her own light through friendship, music, comfort, and healing.

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Dance

Dance

After violence tears two siblings apart, a surviving girl transforms grief into remembrance, solidarity, and hope through silence, lanterns, paper boats, and dance.

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The Wind and the Moon

The Wind and the Moon

Jealous Wind battles the radiant Moon with all his force, only to discover that true beauty and quiet strength always return beyond control.

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The Mugunghwa Flower Has Bloomed

The Mugunghwa Flower Has Bloomed

A female ssireum wrestler becomes the mugunghwa itself, gripping through darkness and adversity until strength, resilience, and Korean heritage bloom together on sand.

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The Right to Be Poor

The Right to Be Poor

A street humanist walks beside people pushed into poverty, revealing how dignity, listening, relationships, and welfare as a right can rebuild damaged lives.

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Donghae

Donghae

A hidden girl and unwanted prince defy a prophecy demanding sacrifice, awakening guardian spirits while fighting to save their kingdom without erasing themselves.

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Butterfly Princess

Butterfly Princess

A poor artisan’s son befriends a lonely princess and learns that silk flowers can preserve memory, dignity, friendship, and beauty beyond loss forever.

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The Sudden Maeng Detective

The Sudden Maeng Detective

Accused after a classroom fire, a lonely boy becomes a detective and discovers every suspect hides wounds deeper than the mystery he investigates.

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Tooth Monster

Tooth Monster

A crooked-toothed boy and perfect-toothed monster cross worlds together, discovering courage, friendship, and self-acceptance can restore wishes and protect what makes them different.

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Mireuksa's Treasure

Mireuksa's Treasure

An orphan seeks treasure to save his sick sister, but friendship and loss teach him that sincere hearts can outweigh gold and status.

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Beautiful Jeju Stories

Beautiful Jeju Stories

Six Jeju folktales bring wind goddesses, haenyeo, serpents, sea palaces, and mountains alive, revealing an island shaped by courage, reciprocity, community, and memory.

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