Children's & YA
Lele’s Little Lantern
by Min-I Yen
LeLe has a small lantern, always twinkles with light. Wherever Lele is, the night is decorated beautifully. One day, LeLe’s little lantern is broken, and all the animals gather together to think of solutions. Will the candles work? Or should we collect the moonlight? However, all of these measures seem useless to fix LeLe’s little lantern. What should LeLe do? Lele’s Little Lantern is about a warm journey of searching and finding oneself. Human beings often rely on pursuing external things to prove self-worth without realizing oneself is a unique existence. The illustrator, Yan Ming-Yi, implies pursuit of glowing as the pursuit of oneself. Through the illustrations that are full of warmth, vividly captures the journey of repairing the lantern, which at the same time is also a journey of healing oneself.
