Yu-Rhee, a young Korean girl, wants to know how to tell time using a clock.
Her mother tells her a tale from her childhood based on the traditional Korean practice of timekeeping, where the 12 animals of the zodiac are assigned to 2-hour sections of the 24-hour clock.
Told from the point of view of a mountain, the story follows a child as they climb the mountainside in search of a plant to heal their ailing mother.
The climb is steep, the path wild and the way difficult.
The mountain watches the.
Orca Book Publishers Once upon an hour, hardcover/ann yu-kyung choi
