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Foreign Rights Catalogue
Bronze
Publishing
2019
Akiko Miyakoshi みやこしあきこ
My Journey Piano Recital
New A story of dealing with stage
The new lithograph picture book about a journey from the New
Title York Times “Best Illustrated Book” & Bologna Ragazzi Award
fright and discovering courage in
unexpected places.
Winner, Akiko Miyakoshi.
Today is Momo’s first piano recital. She
For the owner of this little hotel, every day is the same. Guests
is very nervous as she waits backstage
come from around the world, telling stories of faraway places and
for her turn to perform. But when a
sending him postcards once they return home. The owner longs to
little mouse invites her to see her own
make his own journey, meeting friends and exploring new places
piano recital, Momo finds there’s no
along the way. Will he ever be able to leave his little hotel? In
need to worry.
beautiful lithographs that printed by the author herself, Akiko
Miyakoshi’s latest picture book explores longing and discovering
the courage to travel into the unknown.
Format
270 × 185 mm, 32 pages
ISBN
978-4-89309-541-1 Whose Are These?
Publication date Format Publication date
April 2012 220 × 220 mm, 32 pages May 2013
Format このホテルを はじめて
Rights sold ISBN
271 × 216 mm, 32 pages
いったい どのくらいになるだろう?
ちいさいけれど いごこちのいい
ぼくの じまんのホテルさ。
Spanish, Catalan, French, World English 978-4-89309-559-6
ISBN まいにち せかいじゅうから
978-4-89309-647-0
いろいろな おきゃくさんが やってくる。
Publication date
November 2018
All rights available
Yukiko Tanemura 種村有希子
A Treasured Gift
New
とちゅうで なつかしい ゆうじんのところにも よろう。
もしかしたら ゆうじんのゆうじんも ぼくのことを
Sometimes it’s not easy for young children to say sorry after Format
Title
もてなしてくれるかもしれない。
257 × 195 mm, 32 pages
an argument with their friends. This is the story of a girl
who learns how to make up and get along with her friends ISBN
from a surprise visitor. 978-4-89309-659-3
Publication date
Hana had a quarrel with her friend and came home crying. When- April 2019
ever she was sad, she climbed into her mother’s closet. This time,
when she climbed in, she found a child she didn’t know there! All rights available
Her name was Yuriko, the same as Hana’s mother. Yuriko had
Open the door and also just fought with a friend. After sharing their feelings, even
strong ones like fear, anger and frustration, the two girls realize
go to another place, that they really like their friends after all.
somewhere else. . . A story about friendship and learning to
be brave and make up again.
Akiko Miyakoshi Yukiko Tanemura
Born in Saitama in 1982. After winning grand prize Born in Hokkaido in 1983. She is a graduate of the
at the “Nissan Children’s Storybook and Picture Tama Art University’s Faculty of Art and Design,
Book” while at university, she made her a debut as a where she studied painting. She won the Kodansha
picture book artist. Her picture book, The Way Home New Picture Book Author Award, making her picture
in the Night has received Bologna Ragazzi Award, The book debut with her winning book Kii no ie de (“At
New York Times / New York Public Library, Winner. Kii’s House”).
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Shuntaro Tanikawa Noritake 谷川俊太郎 Noritake Yoshifumi Hasegawa 長谷川義史
Peace and War A Puppy’s Pilgrimage
New New A funny tale of adventure and doggy Format Text
A picture book with simple, clear illustrations to help children
Title think about peace
Title devotion. 271 × 210 mm
32 pages plus
Hiroe Aoki
Illustrations
In the Edo Period, hundreds of thousands double gatefold
978-4-89309-657-9
What is the difference between “Me at peace” and “Me at war”? Each Yoshifumi Hasegawa
C8771 ¥0000E
0000 spread presents a side-by-side comparison of the same people, things, of people from across Japan made the ISBN
and places shows the stark differences—and surprising similarities— great pilgrimage to Ise Shrine. This is the 978-4-89309-656-2
between times of peace and war. The black and white illustrations story of a puppy’s progress on its way
Publication date
highlight in a clear and simple way how things look completely differ- to most powerful shrine to pray in his February 2019
ent when war comes—and remind us that we remain human in spite master’s place. The puppy sets out alone
through mountains and valleys. Will he All rights available
of our differences.
ever make it there and back again?
「わんころう わんころう こっちおいで」
おやつの たまごやきかな。
あ、こいちゃんが よんだはる。
あそんでくれまへんねん。
このごろ こいちゃんが ちぃとも
なんぞ おもろいこと おまへんか。
わいのなまえは わんころう。
すごろくや、ちゅうて けっこう はんじょうしてまんねん。
ここは おおさか せんばの こめどんや。
くっついていったら ええのやて。
あとは おいせまいりのひとに
くびにつけてもろて、
おいせさんの ひしゃくを
By comparing two sides,
Format we can see more clearly.
185 × 185 mm, 32 pages
ISBN
978-4-89309-654-8 へいわのハハ せんそうのハハ
Publication date
March 2019 Peace is Wonderful Format
All rights available 297 × 214 mm, 32 pages
A message of peace from Okinawa
ISBN
What would a peaceful world look like? Cats smiling, tummies 978-4-89309-587-9
full of food, everyone living together happily. . . This poem,
written by a 6-year-old child from Okinawa, Japan, offers read- Publication date
ers hope for a more peaceful world. Beautiful illustrations by June 2014
へいわとせんそう_本文.indd 8-9 2019/01/16 13:35 Yoshifumi Hasegawa bring a child’s vision of peace to life. All rights available.
へいわのぎょうれつ せんそうのぎょうれつ
Sushi-Go-Round Format
Enjoy a fun and delicious sushi day out 250 × 205 mm, 32 pages
with the characters in one funny family! ISBN
978-4-89309-535-0
Let’s go out for sushi! Have fun choosing different kinds of sushi
Shuntaro Tanikawa from the Sushi-Go-Round as you enjoy a delicious sushi with one Publication date
Born in Tokyo in 1931. He is a poet funny family: Father, Mother, Sister, and Brother. Watch out for March 2012
who, at age 21, published his first Dad’s signs! And don’t miss your favorite dishes as the plates Rights sold
poem Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude.
pass by on the Sushi-Go-Round! Chinese (complex)
Since then he has won many awards
へいわとせんそう_本文.indd 14-15 2019/01/16 13:35
and has become one of Japan’s most
active and prominent poets.
へいわのチチ せんそうのチチ
Mr. Reindeer
Format
Noritake Yoshifumi Hasegawa
190 × 190 mm
Born in Hyogo in 1978. Focusing on Born in Osaka in 1961. Yoshifumi Hasegawa, has 32 pages
monochrome drawings, he creates published over 120 picture books. With his distinc-
works for advertisements, books, tive and colorful brushstrokes and humorous style, ISBN
magazines, fashion, product merchan- he is known for presenting important social issues in 978-4-89309-379-0
dise, and more, and is also active as a thoughtful and thought-provoking way, one that is
a designer and director. fun and appealing. Publication date
February 2006
へいわとせんそう_本文.indd 6-7 2019/01/16 13:35
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Five Titles
Noritake Suzuki 鈴木のりたけ 310,000 Copies
Sold!
The Museum The Workplaces Series Workplaces 1 Workplaces 4
New shinkansen (bullet pyrotechnist, flight at-
Title Travel through time at the Museum with this A huge collection of workplaces—
now as picture books!
train) driver, patis-
sier, hairdresser, sushi
tendant, Japanese sweets
craftsman, aquarium
new Put on Your Forehead Picture Book! chef, automobile keeper, scientist, special
Explore more than 50 different exciting mechanic, wooden effects make-up artist,
Transform yourself into characters from the Museum in this second title
toy maker, leather kindergarten teacher,
in the Put on Your Forehead picture book series. From Triceratops horns to a workplaces, and talk to the people working
craftsman, dentist, baker, and seafood pro-
Victorian lady’s hat, Cleopatra’s crown to a samurai helmet, have fun trying on in each one, with the fully illustrated Work- and graphic designer cessing employee
different disguises from famous people and places throughout world history. places series: a sushi chef’s kitchen, the
cockpit of an airplane, a baseball stadium,
Workplaces 2 Workplaces 5:
the studio of a fashion designer or manga
baseball player, Tokyo Skytree
artist, the newsroom of a national paper, a
manga artist, fashion architect, ironworker,
veterinarian’s office, a book store, a flower
designer, animal foreman and workers,
shop, a rice farmer’s paddy, a kindergarten doctor, archaeolo- lighting designer, PR
teacher’s classroom, and many more. gist, bookseller, tofu officer, elevator con-
maker, florist, and structor, local people,
Format astronaut and crane operator
288 × 224 mm, Workplaces 1 to 4; 40 pages,
5; 48 pages
Workplaces 3 Awards
Format Publication date ISBN ⁄ publication date
1: 978-4-89309-461-2 / March 2009 firefighter, rice ▶ Third Place, I Love This Picture Book! National
195 × 175 mm, 22 pages Jun 2018 Picture Book Award
2: 978-4-89309-489-6 / January 2010 farmer, Buddhist
ISBN All rights available.
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monk, actress,
▶ Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Social
3: 978-4-89309-509-1 / January 2011 Security Council, Recommended Child Welfare
978-4-89309-646-3 4: 978-4-89309-583-1 / May 2014 newspaper reporter, Cultural Asset
5: 978-4-89309-542-8 / April 2012 captain of passen- ▶ Third Place, Libro Picture Book Grand Prize
ger boat, carpenter, ▶ Shogakukan Children’s Publisher Culture Prize
Rights sold nurse, and teacher
Korean, Chinese (complex) and many others!
The Wedding Ketchup Man
A Put on Your Head
Picture Book Perfect for anyone looking for the place they belong.
Meet Ketchup Man. When you push on his body, ketchup oozes
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From the bride and musicians,
a sushi chef and . . . an alien?! out. But what’s the point of Ketchup Man? Where does he
Transform yourself into a belong? He wonders this himself. One day, he finds a restaurant
wedding guest to join in the specializing in fried potatoes and thinks he’s found his calling.
celebration just by turning the He works there very hard making fries. But then one day, Dr.
pages and putting the book on Tomato turns up. . .
Format your head. You’ve never been
195 × 175 mm, 22 pages to a wedding quite like this! Format
175 × 220 mm, 28 pages
ISBN
978-4-89309-638-8 ISBN
978-4-89309-610-4
Publication date
November 2017 Publication date
November 2015
All rights available.
Rights sold
Korean
Tabemondo
ばちん
ま っ か な ケ チャップ と び だ し た
とうとう トマトが はれつして
Noritake Suzuki
Format
Born in Shizuoka in 1975. Before becoming a graphic 175 × 220 mm, 28 pages
designer and picture book author, Noritake Suzuki
worked as a bullet train driver. His representative ISBN
works, Workplaces series won many awards in Japan. 978-4-89309-604-3
He also travels around Japan conducting fun and
engaging workshops for children.
Publication date
June 2015
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Hiroshi Abe あべ弘士 Yoshitaka Okada 岡田よしたか Sekai Sakura さくらせかい
Sakurako the Sakura Mochi Gargle, Gargle,
New New
The Bear and the Boy Title Spring is here! But not everyone is
Title
Little Gulls
New enjoying the season. . . A picture book just in time
Title A classic Ainu tale about the magnificence of life.
It’s spring and the sakura (cherry
for gargling season!
Among the Ainu, Japan’s indigenous people, bears are revered as gods. blossoms) are in full bloom. But The air is still cool and it’s
Sakurako the sakura mochi is feeling easy to catch a cold. Be sure
In this story, a bear cub and an Ainu boy are nursed by the boy’s mother,
down. How can the Food Friends to gargle to stay healthy! This
just like real brothers. When the bear cub is big enough, he will be sac- help? How about a picnic under the unique picture book, full of
rificed to the gods in the Iyomante ceremony, his spirit sent up to the cherry trees? jokes and wordplay, follows a
Format Format
heavens. But on the night before the ceremony, the bear cub disappears. . . 175 × 220 mm, 28 pages 182 × 257 mm, 32 pages flock of gargling gulls down
Their extraordinary story continues in this splendidly illustrated picture the river.
book of the classic Ainu tale. ISBN ISBN
978-4-89309-655-5 「よいしょ よいしょ」
978-4-89309-653-1
Publication date Publication date
January 2019 December 2018
All rights available All rights available
Humor Picture Books Series ウたちは さいしょ ハンさんが つったさかなを
ぬすんでたべては いたずらばかり していました。
けれど ハンさんは
みずくさが からまった スーを カニに はさまれた ウーを
Format たんこぶが できた イーを こえだが ささった アルを あごが はずれた サンを たすけて めんどうをみてあげたので
280 × 228 mm, 36 pages
ウたちは ハンさんの そばを はなれようとしませんでした。
Waa the Chikuwa Oodle the Noodle Weed the Seaweed
ISBN
978-4-89309-631-9
Publication date
Mutsumi Ishii
Masako Ahn
May 2018
All rights available 16 17
アンマサコ
Aiko Fukawa 石井睦美 布川愛子
The Birthday Cake A New Dress For Spring
A delicious adventure in the How would you make a dress that expresses
world of sweets all the colors and sensations of springtime?
Ai is taken away to Cake Saki the Bunny is heading for a seamstress’s
Castle, where she eats lots workshop in the forest to make a new dress
of cakes and tarts. She could for springtime. But what kind of pattern,
stay here forever, but she has collar, and buttons should a new dress for
to find one more candle for spring have? Join Saki as she explores the
her birthday cake because colors, flowers, scents, and sounds of spring
today is her 5th birthday. to make a dress that’s perfect for a fresh,
new season.
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Format
230 × 195 mm, 32 pages
Format
271 × 216 mm, 32 pages ISBN
978-4-89309-641-8
ISBN
978-4-89309-630-2 Publication date
February 2018
Publication date
May 2017 Rights sold
Hiroshi Abe Korean
Born in Hokkaido in 1948, Hiroshi Abe worked at All rights available.
the Asahikawa Zoo for 25 years before becoming a
picture book author. From his time as a zookeeper,
he gained deep familiarity with the animals, and
looking at the truth about the animal’s everyday
lives became the origins of his picture books.
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Two Titles Three Titles
Shinsuke Yoshitake ヨシタケシンスケ 750,000 Copies 1,320,000 Copies
7 Languages 10 Languages
Humorous Picture Book Series Sold! Imagination Picture Book Series Sold!
Knead & Stretch It Might Be An Apple
A fun (and funny) way for young children to discover the power
of touch and “skinship." A worldwide hit! Shinsuke Yoshitake’s first imagination picture book.
Children and their parents can have fun playing around with the A boy comes home to find an apple on the table—or is Format
rhythmical words and phrases in this new easy-to-read picture book it? It might be a giant cherry, or a tiny planet that fell 257 × 205 mm, 32 pages
from Shinsuke Yoshitake. This picture book is designed to stimulate to earth, complete with hundreds of tiny aliens on the ISBN
children’s imagination as they think about what it feels like to knead, surface. This original and fun picture book is packed 978-4-89309-562-6
stretch, pummel, pinch, poke, tickle, and more, at an age when they are with all the possibilities a boy can imagine about what
an apple is—or could be. Publication date
developing fine motor coordination. Perfect for reading at bedtime! April 2013
Awards Rights sold
600,000 ▶ Grand Prize, Kindergarten Picture Book Prize Chinese (complex), Korean,
Copies Sold! ▶ First Place, MOE Picture Book Sellers’ Award English (excl. USA and Canada),
150,000 ▶ Artwork Award, 61st Sankei Children’s Book Award Dutch, French, Swedish,
Copies Sold! and many others! Chinese (simplified), Spanish,
Catalan
Format Rights sold
175 × 220 mm, 28 pages Korean, Chinese (complex),
Chinese (simplified)
ISBN
978-4-89309-637-1 Can I Build Another Me?
Publication date Think about “What I am” in this second imagination picture book.
October 2017
Kenta buys a robot to make it do all the things he Format
doesn’t like doing. The robot asks him many questions 257 × 205 mm, 32 pages
in order to become the perfect “Kenta.” As he thinks ISBN
Ragazzi
Award
mention
Still Stuck of how to answer the robot’s questions, Kenta starts to
wonder what it means to be “Kenta” after all. He learns
978-4-89309-591-6
2017 FICTION
that, while it’s good to have a clone to do your chores, Publication date
Mom and Dad are in stitches! What is going to happen
BOLOGNA
September 2014
RAGAZZI
Fiction it’s still hard work thinking about yourself!
AWARD
2017
if I’m stuck forever? Am I going to
Special What’s a kid to do? grow up looking like this? Rights sold
Mention
While getting ready for a bath one Awards Chinese (complex), Korean,
350,000 English (excl. USA and Canada),
evening, a little boy gets stuck in his Copies Sold! ▶ Grand Prize, Nagano Picture Book Award
▶ Second Place, Booksellers’ Picture Book Award Swedish, Chinese (simplified)
clothes. “It’s been a while since that
happened,” he thinks. This unique
and humorous picture book shows a
young boy’s feelings of frustration, but
also determination to do things by
600,000
Copies Sold! himself, in a funny take on what life
would be like if you got stuck in your
What Happens Next?
Awards clothes, but still kept on going. . . A light-hearted way of imagining life after death
▶ Grand Prize, Booksellers’ Picture Book Award Format
▶ Grand Prize, This Book is Good! Picture Book Award Well, I can almost see around me. After Grandpa died, we found a notebook he wrote
257 × 205 mm, 32 pages
▶ Bologna Ragazzi Award 2017 It will be alright, won’t it? about what might happen after he dies. Heaven, gods,
▶ First Place, MOE Picture Book Sellers’ Award graves . . . reading his notebook, somehow it all seems ISBN
Format Rights sold fun. But actually, Grandpa might have been scared of 978-4-89309-617-3
175 × 220 mm, 28 pages Chinese (complex), dying, too. . . Publication date
Korean, French, World April 2016
ISBN
English, Spanish, Awards
Shinsuke Yoshitake 978-4-89309-609-8
Chinese (simplified), Rights sold
Born in Kanagawa in 1973, Shinsuke Yoshitake creates
▶ Second Place, MOE Picture Book Sellers’ Award Chinese (complex), Korean,
Publication date Italian, Finnish
inventively humorous and lively illustrations. His 370,000
▶ Grand Prize, Book Award in Fall in Tottori English (excl. USA and Canada),
October 2015 ▶ Grand Prize, Booksellers’ Picture Book Award in Kyushu
unique and sometimes surprising take on everyday Copies Sold! Chinese (simplified)
life has captured the imagination of readers every-
where. In addition to winning many awards in Japan,
his picture books have been translated.
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Komako Sakai 酒井駒子 tupera tupera ツペラツペラ
Hina & the Lost Kitten Baby
Format
New from Komako Sakai! An adorable round picture book! 195 × 200 mm (round), 22 pages
A story about taking in a small creature. Format Text ISBN
My baby, my baby, my super cute baby! Such a
271 × 216 mm, 32 pages LEE 978-4-89309-616-6
wonderful smiley face. Shall we play with a ball?
A tiny kitten turns up on Hina’s doorstep one
ISBN Illustrations How about a tambourine? Oh no, don’t cry! You Publication date
day. “It’s a real living thing, isn’t it?” she says 978-4-89309-611-1 Komako Sakai must be hungry. . . With this adorable round pic- March 2016
to her mother. This beautifully illustrated and
Publication date ture book, anyone can have fun playing with—
eagerly anticipated new picture book from Rights sold
November 2015 and even nurse—Baby.
Komako Sakai explores a young child’s feelings World English, French, Spanish, German,
of attachment—and also her worries about Rights sold Italian
loss and separation—as she learns to care for French, World English
her new pet.
The Velveteen Rabbit
Format original text
271 × 216 mm, 36 pages Margery Williams
Bianco
ISBN
Komako Sakai 978-4-89309-408-7 Abridged Text &
Illustrations
Born in 1966, Komako Sakai made
her debut as a picture book illustra-
Publication date
April 2007
Komako Sakai 650,000 Polar Bear’s Underwear Format
297 × 180 mm, 32 pages
tor in 1998 after graduating from
Copies
Rights sold 10 Lan- To read this book, first take off its pants! ISBN
University of the Arts. Her magnifi
cent paintings have beena highly French, Korean, Chinese guages 978-4-89309-547-3
(complex), World English, Polar Bear has lost his underwear. With the help of
acclaimed internationally. Sold! his friend Mouse, he goes looking for his missing Publication date
Spanish, Catalan
pants, but each pair they find belongs to someone September 2012
else. Everyone seems to have underwear except Rights sold
him—even the book itself has a pair to wear! Will Korean, Chinese (complex), World English,
Yasuhiro Suzuki 鈴木康広
Polar Bear ever find his missing underwear?
Awards
French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish,
Catalan, Swedish
▶ Grand Prize Kindergarten Picture Book Prize
The Apple & The Kendama ▶ Grand Prix (PLJM) Le Prix du Livre Jeunesse Marseille
▶ Third Place MOE Picture Book Sellers’ Award
▶ Grand Prize, Booksellers’ Picture Book Award and many others!
Discover the surprising connections between
something as ordinary as an apple and Format
a child’s toy 220 × 175 mm, 32 pages Trees Lined Up Swim Fish, Swim! Happy Heart Book
ISBN Format Format Format 170 × 155 mm, 24 pages
The apple and the kendama go well together. 978-4-89309-629-6 280 × 125 mm, 26 pages 280 × 125 mm, 26 pages ISBN 978-4-89309-579-4
You might be wondering why, but there are very
Publication date ISBN ISBN Publication date January 2014
good reasons. Expand your world and discover
October 2017 978-4-89309-506-0 978-4-89309-507-7 All rights available.
a new way of seeing things by exploring the
All rights available. Publication date Publication date
extraordinary relationship between an apple February 2011 February 2011
and a kendama, a traditional Japanese wooden Stripe Island
toy. This is the long-awaited picture book from Format 272 × 215 mm, 32 pages
the popular illustrator Yasuhiro Suzuki. ISBN 978-4-89309-380-6
Publication date April 2006
Rights sold English (excl. USA and
My Cat Nyanta Canada)
Yasuhiro Suzuki Format
190 × 190 mm, 36 pages tupera tupera
Born in Shizuoka in 1979, Yasuhiro
Suzuki began his career working in Tatsuya Kameyama and Atsuko Nakagawa, the artists better known
ISBN
digital design at a University of Tokyo as the creative unit tupera tupera, began as picture book authors and
978-4-89309-622-7
research lab. His award-winning illustrators. Along with picture books, they engage in many other kinds
design works show the playful heart Publication date of creative projects, including craft workshops, stage production art.
inside everyday things. October 2016 Their distinctive style, with its superb design and extraordinary color
sense, has captured the imagination of readers around the world.
All rights available.
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Hiroshi Kagakui 100% orange
Gomi Taro 五味太郎
かがくいひろし
Hirotaka Nakagawa
100%ORANGE 中川ひろたか
16 Languages
The Rakugaki Books Series
Doodling is where art begins!
Sold!
In his bestselling rakugaki books series, Gomi Taro
invites children into the magical world of doodling.
These large-format volumes offer budding artists
Happy Spoon Happy Cup Happy Socks
the perfect starting place to scribble, color and
paint, inspiring them to experiment as they create Daruma-san Daruma-san’s. . . Together with
their very own art works. Once children catch the Daruma-san
doodle bug, they’ll never want to stop doodling! Daruma-san Series
Format 297 × 210 mm, 368 pages Rakugaki Book I Rakugaki Book II Meet the adorable hit character. Three
ISBN Book I: 978-4-89309-019-5 Book II: 978-4-89309-048-5 Rolling here, there and everywhere, Daruma- Titles
Rights sold F rench, Chinese (complex), Chinese (simplified), World English, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese (ex. Brazil),
Spanish, Catalan, Dutch, Greek, Estonian, Finnish, German, Swedish, Korean
san has captured the hearts of millions of
children, making them laugh with every turn 6,200,000 My Happy Boat My Happy Bus My Happy House
Publication date Book I: February 1990 Book II: April 1992 of the page. Meet Daruma-san’s friends, or Copies
see what Daruma-san wants to show us next.
Sold! The Happy Baby Book Series
Format
175 × 175 mm, 20 pages Explore the world with your happy baby!
ISBN ⁄ publication date Keeping Warm Under the Covers Format 160 × 160 mm, 26 pages
978-4-89309-431-5 / January 2008
ISBN 978-4-89309-300-4 978-4-89309-301-1 978-4-89309-302-8
978-4-89309-447-6 / August 2008
978-4-89309-334-9 978-4-89309-333-2 978-4-89309-332-5
978-4-89309-452-0 / January 2009
Publication date (three of above) August 2003, (three of below) September 2004
The Happy Time The Sad Time The Boring Time The Angry Time All rights available.
Rakugaki Book Rakugaki Book Rakugaki Book Rakugaki Book Rights sold French, Chinese (complex)
Make happy doodles When you’re sad, Draw bored faces, Doodle when you’re Doodle with Doodle Anytime
in this bright pink doodle in this blue bored shoes, and all angry, and soon Gomi Taro Enjoy the four sea-
Gomi Taro’s first bilin- sons as you doodle
Kenichi Okumura
mirocomachiko
book. It will make book and watch the of a sudden, you’re you won’t be angry
gual doodle book in every day of the year.
Matti Pikkujamsa
you even happier! blues disappear. not bored anymore! anymore!
Japanese and English. Format
Format Format Format Format
127 × 132 mm 127 × 132 mm 127 × 132 mm 127 × 132 mm Format 200 × 210 mm
おくむらけんいち マッティ ピックヤムサ ミロコマチコ
288 pages 288 pages 288 pages 288 pages 220 × 220 mm 376 pages
168 pages ISBN
ISBN ISBN ISBN ISBN
978-4-89309-496-4 978-4-89309-497-1 978-4-89309-498-X 978-4-89309-499-5 ISBN 978-4-89309-406-3 Format
978-4-89309-308-0 Rights sold 271 × 216 mm, 32 pages
Rights sold Rights sold Rights sold Rights sold
World English, World English, World English, World English, Rights sold World English, French,
ISBN
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Greetings September 2013
Doodling Workbook 1-2-3
One cake, two puppies. . . Let’s Greetings are the first step to Rights sold
add, subtract and learn num- communication. Explore greetings in Korean, Chinese (complex)
various situations.
bers while doodling! Copycat Families Eye to Eye, You and I
Format Format 225 × 240 mm, 32 pages
A brilliant new picture book The fun begins when you make
210 × 297 mm, 240 pages Postcard Doodle Book ISBN 978-4-89309-492-6
from Scandinavia! eye contact with a child. . . Awards
ISBN 978-4-89309-451-3 All rights available. ▶ Kodansha Publishing Culture Prize:
Format When Mama & Papa Lion say When we meet, eye to eye,
Rights sold 148 × 105 mm, 64 pages Picture Book Award
World English, Italian, Dutch Questions “ROAR!” Baby Lion replies “roar!” I smile. When I look at you, my
ISBN 978-4-89309-059-1 as best she can. With this charm- heart warms. . . Make eye contact
Gomi Taro presents an interactive
Rakugaki Daughter & Friends Rights sold picture book that answers unique ing picture book, readers can have with a child, just like the ani- Tetsuzo
French, World English, fun mimicking various animal mals do with their babies in this
Format questions. Winner of the Biennial of Illustration
Italian, Dutch
127 × 264 mm, 288 pages sounds—just like the animal colorful picture book, and let the Bratislava (BIB) Golden Apple Award
Format 225 × 240 mm, 32 pages babies do! The bold Scandinavian communication begin. Musical
ISBN 978-4-89309-505-3 ISBN 978-4-89309-491-9 Tetsuzo is my cat. In the spring, he chases flower
All rights available. illustration style and bright colors lines and brilliant illustrations petals, and in the summer, he sleeps in the sink.
All rights available. will certainly appeal to children bring the connection between But on my eighth winter with Tetsuzo, he starts
and parents alike. parent and child to life. to grow smaller and smaller…
Gomi Taro Shopping
A fun picture book to teach the Format 165 × 165 mm, 20 pages Format 165 × 165 mm, 20 pages
Born in Tokyo in 1945, Gomi Taro worked as an indus-
trial and editorial designer before becoming a picture
value of money through shopping ISBN 978-4-89309-607-4 ISBN 978-4-89309-608-1 My Cat’s Dailies
for everyday things. Publication date September 2015 Publication date January 2016
book author. He has since released more than 350 Format 210 × 148 mm, 192 pages
titles, including more than 100 titles that have been Format 225 × 240 mm, 32 pages All rights available. All rights available. ISBN 978-4-89309-623-4
translated and published in over 20 countries. ISBN 978-4-89309-493-3 Publication date December 2016
All rights available. Rights sold Korean, Chinese (complex)
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