What is coffee? Is it a refreshing drink, a poem in a cup with a distant place, coffee or food, a fruit and a crop, so how long can it ripen? And how did you go from a small sapling to a delicious drink? The story of coffee is a bit complicated to tell, and perhaps the best way to understand it is to go to the origin of the coffee for yourself, see the environment in which the coffee is grown, pick, process and roast with the coffee farmers, and drink a cup of coffee brewed by yourself.
Every time I go to Yunnan, I will become a curious child, and every time I will be touched by coffee.
Under the epidemic, the pace of our long journey had to slow down, but someone made a "Coffee Book for Children" with vivid picture books and childlike perspectives.
A childlike coffee journey
"Coffee Book for Children" is the first book officially published by the "YSCC Yunnan Specialty Coffee Community", a popular science book to disseminate coffee knowledge to young children and describe the whole process of "from seed to cup".
However, it is not a simple children's book, but also a book for adults. Because in the face of the things you love, who will not unload some of the burdens of daily life and become a carefree "big friend"?
The book tells the story of a city boy named Xiao Qi who follows his parents who open a café to a sharing session in the Yunnan region. He met Hua Hua, the daughter of a coffee farmer, in Yunnan, and the two of them began an adventure in the coffee field, from a "ruby" coffee cherry that fell, how did the coffee come about? Archie has his own answer.
In this book, Xiao Qi seems to be us who go to the production area to find treasure, and Hua Hua is a small "coffee preacher", she wears ethnic minority costumes, dark and healthy skin, savage hair growth, and a sunny smile, which instantly reminds us of the simple and unpretentious coffee farmers in the production area.
They went from picking coffee, processing coffee, roasting coffee, making coffee to creative coffee, and finally sharing coffee with more people at the coffee sharing festival in the region.
"Coffee Book for Children" inner page appreciation
Colorful hand-drawn, concise words, this childlike coffee journey easily brings us to the eyes, while gaining professional coffee knowledge. I believe that after reading this book, you will relive the magical journey from seed to cup.
The original intention of "Coffee Book for Children"
In the yunnan production area work time, the life and growth of a new generation of coffee growers has always been the most concerned part of YSCC, with the older generation of growers, Yunnan coffee is in a new and old alternating moment, more and more "coffee second generation" began to pay attention to the hometown of this industry and use the unique insights and new ways of the younger generation to participate in it.
The archetypes of Archie and Huahua in the book are Chen Danqi, the founder of YSCC, and Zhao Hua, a core team member. Their daily routine is to go to the fields to educate and train coffee farmers, providing the necessary knowledge and skills. In this process, they can often see the figure of a younger generation of children, the youngest of whom may be only seven or eight years old, but they will already go down to the field with their parents, brothers and sisters to pick coffee beans and shuttle through the coffee forest.
During class, they often surprise Archie and Flowers. They don't need guidance, they can figure out how to measure the sweetness of coffee and fruit, and even teach their elders how to use it. They master the brewing and cupping of coffee faster than the older generation of coffee farmers.
When communicating with friends and peers, everyone always mentions it repeatedly and worries about the future inheritance of Yunnan coffee, but when they see these children, they feel that this worry may be dispelled, because they are a small star belonging to Yunnan coffee and are shining.
Most of them don't understand where the coffee they grow at home goes and why it's loved by so many people. In the city, children who taste coffee in cafes with their parents also have no idea what kind of journey the coffee in the cup has gone through.
Therefore, YSCC decided to make such a "coffee book for children", through the form of picture book science; to enlighten children in production areas and cities (of course, there are big friends), so that everyone can establish a basic understanding of coffee.
"Coffee Book for Children" inner page appreciation
Although the process of going from a seed to a cup of coffee is very difficult, it is not as "pathetic" as many films and images advertise, and there are many happiness and joys in it. A small coffee bean originally linked so many people, everyone is trying to present the best state of this bean, this thing itself is rare and worth cherishing, isn't it?
"Coffee Book for Children" inner page appreciation
In the process of drawing, after continuous correction, proofreading, and finally this picture book was presented, in addition to popularizing coffee knowledge, it is more to express the love for Yunnan coffee and hometown. The transformation of coffee knowledge into images is also a very complex process, and the creative team and illustrators have finally presented such a vivid graphic story through continuous communication and modification.
Big friends and little ones watch together!
Although it is in the form of a picture book, in fact, this book still has a certain degree of difficulty in reading, and it is more expected that the big friends will not let the children read alone, but explore the world of coffee together.
Of course, if you want to read it yourself, there is no problem, because the content of this book is very rich, and the difficulty of knowledge is gradual, even if you don't know coffee at all, you can easily read picture books, and it is also very recommended for people in the coffee industry to collect Oh (after all, it is really worth it)
Let goodwill return to the place of origin again!
After that, YSCC will distribute the "Coffee Book for Children" free of charge in the appellations, and the additional proceeds from the sale of the book will also be used for the children in these appellations. After all, they are the starting point for all this and the "inspiration muse" of the book.
However, due to the border between Yunnan and Myanmar, the epidemic situation and various factors, the donation with the sale of picture books and the nature education class have been temporarily postponed, and YSCC is also waiting for the right time to resume.
Don't miss "Coffee Book for Kids"
As a coffee practitioner, I was very, very pleased to see this book, and even felt why I didn't make such a good book out, I want to give it to my children and friends' children. Telling the story of coffee from the source is also telling the reverence for nature.
It is a wonderful nature education book, popular coffee from seed to cup knowledge.
Parent-child family books make children prefer to communicate with their parents and increase their reading ability.
Coffee lovers, café collections and fun gifts.
Picture books use pictures to tell stories in the art form, let us use pictures as far as possible to popularize difficult crop knowledge.
How do I buy?
Exactly 128 pages, more than 500 full-color hand-painted surfaces, fully hardcover
A coffee gift worth cherishing and giving
It will move you.
Finally, I hope that friends who get the big and small of this book will enjoy it. Archie and Hua Hua became good friends because of coffee, and don't we resonate because of coffee?
I also hope that everyone will be like the last sentence of the book, do not stop exploring the world, to accept, appreciate and share!
Introduction to the YSCC |
The Yunnan specialty coffee community, as a promoter and linker, enables every link in the Yunnan coffee industry chain to exert its true value, from the supply chain of the past simple buying and selling relationship to the value-oriented value chain, and ultimately help Yunnan become the next specialty coffee production area. It is YSCC's mission to become an "efficient, dynamic and trustworthy coffee organization that helps Chinese coffee to gain worldwide reputation", and as a promoter and connector, YSCC is also committed to building "a sustainable development of the production area, a win-win industry" and regards it as the ultimate vision of the organization.
Illustrator | introduction
Wu Jiaojun, also known as "Nightgown Face", a native of Yunnan, graduated from Beihai Art and Design College in 2020 majoring in visual communication design. After graduation, he worked as a freelancer and now lives in Pu'er, Yunnan. She likes to find inspiration in her daily life, using different mediums to create and output.
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