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Publishing ‘An old story of the world’ series
In those stories passed by orally, we can find their lifestyles, custom and experiences. When we read the old stories, we can understand their thoughts in life and learn their wisdom in that country. ‘An old story of the world’ series are not well-known stories to us. Among them, ‘A Brave Pygmean Boy who stole fire’ was from myths, ‘We can’t stop Marquinace’ was from fables and ‘Mpunzanyana’ was from folktales. We hope children who read this book feel closer the lifestyles and thoughts of African.

■ Book review
Mythology of many countries has come to talk about fire and is very diverse. Some of these Mythologies say that the fire is a special thing that was stolen or granted from the Gods. 《A brave pygmean boy who stole fire》 is one of Africa mythologies about how men could use fire at first in Africa, and is written a interesting story for kids.

Lilly Kim, illustrator of this picture book, used the patterns and colors you see in sculpture and work of art in Africa to express the profound theme of man and God effectively and to have more fun of the story. Colse-up scenes and primary colors enrich a story telling and create a spectacular atmosphere. And marbling effect and colorful collage also makes us feel alive and excited.

■ Story
Long long time ago, people could not use fire. Only God owned and used it.
One day the chief of Pygmy with hunting animals just saw the fire. He wanted to get the fire. But he failed to stole the fire from God. Since that time, many pygmeans tried to stole the fire again and again but also failed. Meanwhile, a brave and wise pygmean boy planed to steal the fire and eventually stole it. Though God regretted granting the fire to him, it turned out to be of no use. In the end the people who stole the fire was punished by God.

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Long long time ago, people could not use fire.
Only God owned and used it.
This is the story how people could use fire in Africa.

God, the owner of fire, lived with his old mother.
His mother had to take care of fire and not to go out every day and night.

One day, God had to go to a meeting of Gods in Africa.
He worried about his old mother left alone.
"Don't worry, my son.", said his mother.
"Take care, mom, It won't take long.", said God.

God tapped at his heel with liana cane.
He flew up into the air in a blink and stood on a cloud.
Then he disappeared over the river.

His mother dozed off in front of fire after a while.

Then the chief of Pygmy with hunting animals
just happened to be there and saw the fire flame.
He wanted to get the fire flame.
And he said, "Oh! It's warm. It must be useful to my people. I'll take it."
He took it and ran away in a hurry.

"Oh, no! The fire has been stolen", God's mother yelled.
She shivered with cold.
God heard his mother's yells of pain.
He came back and chased after the chief.
"How dare you steal my fire!", he hurled words of thunder.
"I made a mistake. Forgive me, please.", the chief said with a weep.
"I'll forgive you this time.
Never come near my house again!", he yelled at the chief.

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