★6~8 years old
★“A Sweet Restaurant That Gives Happiness”
★Winner of the Blue Literature Award, Korean Children's Literature Award, Socheon Children's Literature Award, and Open Children's Literature Award, This picture book is the latest fairy tale by acclaimed author Park Hyesun, known for her artistic and literary achievements.
★While reading this book, I once again felt that ‘stories are powerful.’ Kitty’s story is interesting, warm, and gives a heart-warming impression. - Song Eon, Children’s book writer

After feeling lonely one day, Kitty, a cat living in an empty house, decides to open a restaurant. He sows flower seeds and takes care of wild grasses. A ‘Sweet Restaurant’ is opened with such well-tended flowers.
Kitty’s restaurant is crowded with bees, ladybugs, and fire moths in the spring, and ants and snails in the summer. Then one day, a terrible typhoon rages, and Kitty’s restaurant is covered by a pile of dirt washed down from the mountain.

Because the restaurant was ruined by the typhoon and landslide, Kitty suffers from the loss for a long time all summer. However, flowers soon appear again from the messy yard, and insects begin to visit the restaurant again. Kitty has a busy daily life again. He welcomes and entertains guests until late fall, but when winter comes, he closes his business for a while and goes on a trip, promising to be back next spring.
Will Kitty return to the sweet restaurant?
This book is a new fairy tale from Park Hyeseon, a writer whose literary merit was recognized by winning Korea’s representative literary awards. It tells the sweet and warm story of what happens when Kitty, a cat who lives alone in an empty house in the countryside, opens a restaurant. The customers who come to the restaurant are insects and animals that are familiar to us. Worker bees who want to take a break from work, fire moths dancing happily after being moved by Kitty’s food, snails who walked all night to get to the restaurant, and a family of rabbits who came with hungry bellies in the cold winter.

The customers’ stories create empathy as they resemble situations and emotions we commonly experience and feel in our daily lives. In addition, the sight of Kitty paying attention to his guests and carefully caressing their hearts and feelings is touching and brings calm comfort.

As readers follow the changes of the seasons in the story, readers will naturally learn about the annual lives of various flowers, insects, and animals. In addition, the easy story structure leads lower elementary school readers who are transitioning from picture books to reading books to the ‘pleasure of reading books.’

The story of the main character Kitty will not stop with this book but will continue, moving to places such as a hair salon and a sauna, where more fun and enjoyable events await.

Written by Park Hyesun
Park Hyeseon made her literary debut in 1992 when her children’s poem won the Saebeot Literary Award, and in 2003, her short story The House of Shadows won the 2nd Blue Literature Award. She has published numerous collections of children’s poetry and fairy tales. She received the 1st Pencil Poetry Literary Award and the 15th Korean Children’s Literature Award as well as the Socheon Children’s Literature Award and the Open Children’s Literature Award. Her children’s poems “Father’s Bag” and “Broken Mirror” have been published in elementary and middle school textbooks.

Illustrated by Song Seonok
Song Seonok is a picture book author and has published numerous books, including “Just Right”,“Rabbit Grato”,“Hold on Tight!” and “I Like Boxes.”