A little girl welcomes a newcomer to her family one summer. The newcomer is an injured stag beetle called Sombrita. She carefully makes a home for Sombrita, and checks on it every day, until one day it disappears.…
Every summer holiday, a little girl goes with her father to Grandma’s old house in the mountains. This year, they find an injured stag beetle in the woods, and take it home. They call it Sombrita. The little girl makes a special home for Sombrita, with leaves for it to rest under, and its favorite food like apple. Sombrita creates many happy memories for the little girl that summer. She never expects that one day it might disappear.…
Sombrita is a picture book about meeting and parting. Author Lee Jo-Shin uses a fresh, warm visual voice, to tell the story of a little girl welcoming a new friend into her life, and other life lessons that the stag beetle brought in.
