hsiaochi chang
  • picture books
    • 等媽媽來的時候
    • 今天的月亮
    • 反正都可以到嘛!
    • 哪邊是哪邊
  • illustrations
    • 食話食說
    • 大可的日子
    • 佳音英語世界雜誌
    • 海馬小花逛超市
    • 聽!那是什麼聲音
    • 呼嚕魔宮數學大挑戰
    • 在家裡
    • 藝舍卡片
    • sleeping beauty
    • 國語日報週刊
    • 小典藏
    • 慌慌張張的耶誕老人
    • 黑夜裡的小精靈
    • we are us
    • 海馬小花上學去
    • the cotton candy sheep
  • about
    • awards and honors
    • publications
    • experience
    • exhibitions
  • contact

​
反正都可以到嘛 Will arrive anyway
2019-2021
​
遠流出版公司
2020
好繪芽繪本創作獎助, 高雄市立圖書館, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
​新銳奬
A little girl is waiting at the bus stop. Instead of the regular bus, a cat-faced bus arrives. Even though it is a different bus, she thinks it will still take her home. So she gets on the cat-faced bus. The cat-faced bus catches fish along the river, goes to see the grilling master on the grass, and causes trouble in the woods. The little girl believes that it will still take her home even if the cat-faced bus seems like it is not taking her in the right direction.   In the end, the cat-faced bus decides to stop for a nap, and the little girl holds her belief and starts her own new adventure.

One day, I was waiting for the bus in the heavy rain for a long time. Then, a bus which was not the one that I was waiting for came. However, it showed the same destination on the bus. I thought it would take me to the right place, so I got on the bus. But the bus drove in the completely opposite direction right away. I kept sitting on that bus because I thought it would take me to my destination. After a long ride, the bus finally drove toward the right direction again. Then it rear-ended the car in front of us. We all waited on the bus in the middle of the heavy traffic in the pouring rain for about 40 minutes. Then the bus driver told us the bus coming to rescue us would arrive about 81 mins later. So we all got off the bus in the middle of the busy road in the heavy rain. When I finally walked to a safe place, I looked back. All the passengers were slowly vanishing in different directions in the dense, foggy rain. It was a very peaceful and beautiful scene. I wrote and drew the draft of this story the same night after I arrived back home.




All Images © Hsiao-Chi Chang 2022 | im.hsiaochi@gmail.com