The journey to the Creation of the Picture Book, A Wild Windy Night —The interviewer, Hasegawa, Editor for the original Japanese book (November 2021) Hasegawa: Thank you for your time today. In this interview, we’ll be exploring the creation process of A Wild Windy Night. Can you recall when the initial planning meeting took place? I believe it was just ... Read More »
The Forest Friends Series, Book 2
By Kyoko Hara & Kazue Takahashi
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Forest Friends Series, Book 2 by Kyoko Hara & Kazue Takahashi Summer arrives, and once again Mayu goes to the forest near her grandparents’ house. The mailbox is still there. Mayu and Konta, a fox child, write letters to each other and explore the forest together. Mayu keeps this mysterious forest friend a secret. But one day while they are ... Read More »
Written by Kyoko Hara
Illustrated by Kazue Takahashi
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“I used to be a designer at a stationery manufacturer. One day I drew a little bear and put it on letterhead. Although the letterhead didn’t sell well, my bear lived happily on in my heart. In 2001, I named him Kuma-Kuma Chan, and wrote about him. As time passed I forgot about him. When I thought about him ... Read More »
DINOSAURS AND LOVE: TATSUYA MIYANISHI’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN US Tatsuya Miyanishi, acclaimed Japanese author and illustrator visited the US for the first time in October 2017. Miyanishi is the creator of the Tyrannosaurus children’s books, a bestselling series of 13 titles with international sales in excess of 2 million copies. Since 2015 four of the books have been published in ... Read More »
Gon, the Little Fox (written by Nankichi Niimi, illustrated by Genjirou Mita, translated by Mariko Shii Gharbi) has been selected for the 2016 USBBY Outstanding International Books honor list. Gon makes the list for Grades 3-5 along with 8 other outstanding books. The list has been compiled for more than a decade by the United States Board on Books for ... Read More »
One of the most popular children’s books from Japan, You Look Yummy!, is the first book in our Tyrannosaurus series that has sold more than 3 million copies in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan and France. Author/artist Tatsuya Miyanishi highlights the importance of the love between father and son by showing that bonds can grow just as strong, even in a ... Read More »
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