2014 Foreign Rights Guide
-Children-
VOOZFIRM Publishers is a subsidiary of VOOZ Co., Ltd. which created worldwide character “Pucca”.Founded in 2005, started publishing Education comic books for children.Now we put all its effort in publishing books such as encyclopedias, educational novels and go on that would support children during their childhood, offering them opportunity to develop practical skills, creativity and imagination.We are proud of share with you our 2014 list. Also we eager to bring the best books for children in the world. We try to have an approach to children’s publishing that is unique.
FictionThe Pucca PrincessThe Flustered Adventure of Taru 1~2Dangerous Adventure of Columbus 1~2The Monster Island 1~4The Death Angel for Animals
ComicsPucca’s Exciting Adventure in the World 1~18The Close Game of Pucca 1~3Roiworld Story 1~4
Doodle BookPucca’s Doodling Travel 1~3Doodling Adventure Book 1~5Drawing Sketchbook Series 1~3Face Drawing BookI am Chief of the Forest Village
Sticker BookThe Princess Story Pucca
NonfictionBody Book: from Girls to WomenComparison 1~3Alive World History in Calendar 1~2Let’s go to Japan
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kPucca’s Doodling Travel 1~3Title: Pucca’s Doodling Travel1_Europe Pucca’s Doodling Travel2_Asia Pucca’s Doodling Travel3_America
Travel around the world to make Pucca’s dreams come true!Pucca has a great deal of dreams! Meeting the Queen in England, kissing Garu on top of the Eiffel tower, taking the pictures of a dancing cobra in India, participating in the Rio Carnival parade in Brazil, and much more. Help Pucca make her dreams come true. These books include the activities of finding people, things, national flags, capital cities, differences between two pictures, and solving quizzes. So with these books children’s curiosity about the whole world as well as concentration, observation, thinking ability will grow.
•Author : Isobi Lab•Illustator : VOOZ•Specification : 225x305mm / all color / 72pp / hard cover•Publication date: December, 2012 ~ December, 2013•Age group : 6+•Rights sold : China
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kDoodling Adventure Book 1~5Title: Doodling Adventure Book1_Find Pirates’ Treasure Doodling Adventure Book2_Sweep the Robbers’ Hideout Doodling Adventure Book3_Find Monsters Doodling Adventure Book4_Weird Animal World Doodling Adventure Book5_ Noisy Prehistoric Age
Grow your concentration, observation, and confidence through these books!Solving the problems in these books, children will see their concentration, observation and confidence grow in no time. Following Maru and Ara, the main characters in these books, they will also have adventures while finding the hidden pictures, spotting the difference between two pictures, and finding the way through the maze.
•Author : Isobi Lab•Illustator : Kyu Seok, Lim•Specification : 220x280mm / all color / 72pp / soft cover•Publication date: May, 2012 ~ November, 2013•Age group : 6+•Rights sold : China
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kDrawing Sketchbook Series 1~3Title: Drawing Sketchbook1_Princess Drawing Sketchbook Drawing Sketchbook2_Animal Drawing Sketchbook Drawing Sketchbook3_Fashion Drawing Sketchbook
Have you have difficulty in drawing something you really wanted to draw? Don’t worry. Trace along the dim outlines, and you will see a pretty princess, cute animals, and beautiful dresses in no time. Thanks to these books your child doesn’t need mom, or dad to complete their drawings anymore and can finish their drawings on their own. Their confidence, and sense of accomplishment acquired by this activity will make them want to draw more even when there is no rough sketches provided. This is a sketchbook series that will make your child a little artist.
•Author : Isobi Lab•Illustator : Kyu Seok, Lim•Specification : 225x305mm / all color / 72pp / soft cover•Publication date: December, 2012 ~ December, 2013•Age group : 6+•Rights sold : Indonesia
The books for all the girls who want to draw cute, pretty things well!
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Feb 2014
Face Drawing Book
Would you believe there is a book that children really want to have even though it is merely a book that draws a nose, mouth and eyes on an empty face? It is not easy to draw people’s faces. But drawing a nose, mouth and eyes is easy enough for even five years olds to draw. What about gathering all your family and letting each of them finish drawing a face in the book? Don’t forget to evaluate one another’s drawings!
•Author : Author : Isobi Lab•Illustator : Kyu Seok, Lim•Specification : 220x290mm / all color / 104pp / soft cover•Publication date: August, 2013•Age group : 6+
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In the forest are various animals in need of help. Become chief of the forest village yourself and help the animals using your brilliant imagination. I am sure you will make the village a much happier place.
•Author : Isobi Lab•Illustator : Kyu Seok, Lim•Specification : 225x305mm / all color / 100pp / soft cover•Publication date: November, 2012•Age group : 6+•Rights sold : China, Thailand
Become chief of the forest village and spread your imagination in the drawings as much as you like. Then your picture book will be complete!
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Cute Pucca becomes the main character of this princess story and sets out to meet you. Reading this story and attaching the stickers provided, you can make a picture book of your own about a cute princess. This book consists of 8 stories and provides 180 stickers.
Contents_ Pucca the Rapunzel / Pucca the Snow White / Pucca the Cinderella / Pucca the Mermaid / Pucca the Thumbelina / Pucca the Sleeping Beauty / Pucca the Beauty and the Beast / Pucca the Frog Prince
•Author : Isobi Lab•Illustator : VOOZ•Specification : 225x275mm / all color / 32pp / 180 stickers /
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At around age 11 when psychological responses to physical changes begin, a girl can be said to begin growing into a young woman. While an earlier generation of women began their first menstrual period at the average age of 11.98. This earlier start of puberty confuses many mothers and daughters. This book provides reader-friendly advice in a question-and-answer format with colorful illustrations. Designed like a small encyclopedia, this is a must-read for parents with daughters who are entering puberty.
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n Body Book: from Girls to Women•Author : Malga, Kim•Illustator : Da Hye, Son•Specification : 185x245mm / all color / 128pp / soft cover•Publication date: November, 2011•Age group : 10+•Rights sold : China, Taiwan
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nComparison 1~3Title: Comparison_Units Comparison_Evolution of animals Comparion_Weather
Comparison series are the most fun and easy to understand for substance to children as an encyclopedia with canimal characters and variety illustrations.1st volume shows comparing a flea with universe and let readers know about length, width, size, weight, temperature and speed using lots of illustrations.2nd volume is comparing with an animal appearance according to breeding places, features, ecology and evolution of animals as weather and so on. 3rd volume is comparing with lifestyle, clothes, animals, plants, and so on according to climatic zones to educate the conception of climate.
•Author : Da Mi, Lee / Ye Young / Bang Sil, Shin•Illustator : Shin Gwang, Kang•Specification : 210x297mm / all color / 112pp / hard cover•Publication date: March, 2008 ~ December, 2010•Age group : 10+•Rights sold : China (Units, Evolution of animals)
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Alive World History in Calendar 1~2
Do you know what happened today in the past?What happened today in history? Alive world history in Calendar shows the world history day by day with Pucca character. Also readers can find the related story and the region as a terrestrial globe. 1st volume shows world history of 1st January to 31st July on each day. 2nd volume introduces the other half a year.
•Author : Ye Young•Illustator : VOOZ•Specification : 245x255mm / all color / 212pp / hard cover•Publication date: January, 2007•Age group : 8+•Rights sold : Thailand
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Experience real Japanese culture through over 800 photographs.The country of Manga and Anime, earthquakes and hot springs, the country of high cost of living and a strong economy, the familiar yet exotic Japan! Let’s go to Japan, put together with though research in Japan and over 800 photographs arranged in comic book format, the readers will get the sense that they are in Japan themselves as they read the book. Traveling around Tokyo with Pucca and Garu, the readers will expand their horizons and become familiar with Japanese culture, history and lifestyle.
•Author : Sang A, Han / Da Mi, Lee•Illustator : VOOZ•Specification : 210x297mm / all color / 200pp / soft cover•Publication date: July, 2009•Age group : 8+•Rights sold : Taiwan, Thailand, Brazil
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ionThe Pucca Princess
Cute Pucca becomes a main character of this story and sets out to meet you. Meet Pucca who turns into Rapunzel, Snow White, and Cinderella in this story.Contents_ Pucca the Frog Prince / Pucca the Rapunzel / Pucca the Snow White / Pucca the
Cinderella / Pucca the Thumbelina / Pucca the Mermaid / Pucca the Beauty and the Beast / Pucca the Sleeping Beauty
•Author : Isobi Lab•Illustator : VOOZ•Specification : 220x265mm / all color / 100pp / soft cover•Age group : 6+
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Dangerous Adventure of Columbus 1~2
Only one princess was called Isabelle, the political heir of Castile kingdom in fifteen century. She’s famous for the disorderly princess because she’s used to skip the class often. But one day, she changed a chicken when she got up! Merlin is the magician of kingdom. He said of she was released from the curse she has to meet ten people each ten countries and then back to the kingdom with making a wish. So she goes to the adventures with Saulius, Columbus on a Duck boat. This book shows the worldwide geography with people’s life. People very in different localities, weather, land, natural resources etc. Therefore each country has different special qualities and cultures.
•Author : Jin A, Kim•Illustator : Kyu Suk, Lim•Specification : 185x245mm / all color / 268pp / soft cover•Publication date: 2009•Age group : 10+•Rights sold : China
Authored by a science reporter. This book will certainly stimulate primary school students enthusiasm in Physics and prepare them for junior high school with a fantasy novel. To understand about concepts of physics by a novel, readers follow the hero, Taru with adventures so they might be easy to understand about the concepts of physics.
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Title: The Flustered Adventure of Taru 1_Lights and Energies The Flustered Adventure of Taru 2_Waves and Electromagnetism
•Author : Ho Kwan, Ko•Illustator : Jae Hwan, Jung•Specification : 185x245mm / all color / 250pp / soft cover•Publication date: 2009•Age group : 10+•Rights sold : China
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The Monster Island helps children can imagine grammar of English step by step. When children are reading this book, they might imagine the virtual space to their mind by grammatical rules for bring up the image of English grammar. Therefore, they would acquire the English grammar by themselves. Also it is essential for English skills to be learned English grammar as this book.
•Author : Da Mi Lee•Illustator : Seung Won, Park•Specification : 185x245mm / all color / 250pp / soft cover•Publication date: September, 2007 ~ September, 2009•Age group : 10+
The Death Angel for Animals
This story began with the question “Will animals go to heaven too when they die?” Through this story children can learn that animals are also our family and friends, and they shouldn’t abandon or hurt them. Then, they are not afraid of parting from their pets as a result of the pet’s death and their hurt feelings will be comforted.
•Author : Eun Hee, Kim•Illustator : Kyung Hwa, Lee•Specification : 185x240mm / all color / 120pp / soft cover•Publication date: September, 2012•Age group : 8+
This story makes us think about the relationship between human and animal, and provides comforts those who have lost their beloved pet!
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Pucca’s Exciting Adventure in the World 1~18
“Pucca” is the best character in the world also children love it. Created “Pucca” character, VOOZ Co., Ltd. successfully worked the best quality educational comic books. Also the author is specialized in geography and working with comic author for this series. It shows culture, history, celebrities and go on each countries in the world. Many school teachers recommend studying world culture throughout a worldwide map. Reading the Pucca’s exciting adventures in the world will certainly stimulate children’s interest in history and geography in the world. When Garu was doing martial arts, he lighted upon a legendary board game. The god of the board game suggested that he would hear their whishes when they finished the course. Garu wants to meet his mum because he never met her before. So he accepted God’s suggest. However he doesn’t know that he has to discharge duties how to finish his mission at the board game. Garu’s girl friend, Pucca has strong power. Garu and Pucca go to the world and have fun adventures. Let’s follow them!
•Specification : 188x257mm / all color / 185pp / soft cover•Publication date : April 2004 ~ January 2008•Authors : Chang Hyun, Son / Chul Hee, Kim•Illustrator : VOOZ•Age group : 8+•Rights sold : Thailand
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icsThe Close Game of Pucca 1~3
Garu wants to be the best martial artist in the world and, his girlfriend, Pucca loves him. They try to get into the Morimsa which is the martial art monastery. Every the year the center has the entrance examination. So they try to participate the exam and start dangerous travels.
•Author : Hyun Sue, Kim•Illustator : VOOZ•Specification : 188x257mm / all color / 185pp / soft cover•Publication date: January~June, 2006•Age group : 8+•Rights sold : China
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Starting on martial arts tournament which offers a mint of money. Things happening to Paring here, he has to geet married with Power?! However Power’s pretty brother Endy was kidnapping by the Ice Witch. They are starting traveling for getting back his brother. The new enemy, Pierrot suddenly appeared upon Power, Paring and Chuchu. Let’s watch the confrontation between the Pierrot and them.
•Author : Sung Jae, Kim•Illustator : Dae Sue, Yu•Specification : 188x257mm / all color / 192pp / soft cover•Publication date: December, 2005 ~ September, 2006•Age group : 8+•Rights sold : Thailand, Malaysia