Born in Chungju, Kwon Tae-eung (1918-1951) entered the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan but was imprisoned for a year by the Japanese authorities for his involvement in the secret, anti-colonial Readers’ Association. After his release, he returned to Korea to treat tuberculosis but eventually died of the illness. His poems and songs for children such as “The Tomato Tree,” “The Mountain Fountain,” and “Sightseeing in Seoul,” which depict simple daily scenes, were collected and republished as the present volume in 1948.