Dive into a glorious celebration of imagination and summertime in this newly-translated bestselling Korean picture book.

“Deliciously refreshing.”—The Wall Street Journal
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When the summer sun is in full force, there’s only one way to beat the heat: dive into a watermelon pool. After a large watermelon gets splitin half, everyone in the village dives in, digging into the fruit and making slides from the rind while spending a joy-filled day together until nightfall.

Bonsoir Lune is a bestselling and beloved picture book creator working in Korea. Watermelon Pool was her debut picture book, first published in 2015. Translated by New York Times bestselling author Frances Cha, WatermelonPool is the perfect, refreshing read for a scorching hot summer day.

Bonsoir Lune is the author-illustrator of ten picture books, including Watermelon Pool which was an award-winning bestseller in Korea.

Frances Cha is a former travel and culture editor for CNN in Seoul and Hong Kong. She was born in the United States, attended elementary school in Hong Kong and moved to Korea when she was 11. She teaches fiction at theColumbia University MFA program and lives in New York with her family. She is the author of the adult novel If I Had Your Face and the picture books The Goblin Twins and The Goblin Twins: Too Hard to Scare.