AWARD WINNING BOOKS

Walking Home Through the Night I'm an African Giraffe ★ This is a rare book: joyful, ingenuous, playfully earnest, but without a by Akiko Miyakoshi by Megumi Iwasa whiff of studied cuteness. ★ A web of enchantment draws readers into this affecting story. illus. by Jun Takabatake Kirkus Reviews ★ This Japanese import will charm beginning readers who enjoy a bit of Publishers Weekly witty humor with their animal adventures. ★…this reflective, dreamy tale with its timeless art is a must for School Library Journal the bedtime shelf. Kirkus Reviews ★ The gentle friendship story will leave readers feeling warm and fuzzy, making this early chapter book a great addition to any collection. Booklist Online

This is heart-warming tale of a young bunny rabbit discovering what happens at night. Shops close, dinners are taken out of the A lonely giraffe in Africa writes a letter, which it asks a pelican to oven, people come home, little ones go to bed. Her illustrations take to someone living "on the other side of the horizon". Presently capture the balance between the darkness of the night and the the pelican brings a reply from a penguin. In the correspondence warm glow of indoor light, illuminating homes and families, in that follows the giraffe and the penguin discuss their differences this quietly charming night-time narrative. and try to imagine what it would feel like to be the other. Ages 4up Ages 8up 27 x 21 cm, 32 pages 22 x 16 cm, 102 pages Full-colour illustrations Black-and-white illustrations First published April 2015 First published June 2001

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2017 - Best Picture Books of 2017 for Animal Lovers − Kirkus Reviews, Winner (English Edition) [ k e [ e Also available: Also available: The Whale That How Are You, My Name Is Drifter, The Tea Party in the Woods Lived at Cape Whale Fur Seal? from the Seaweed Forest by Akiko Miyakoshi A retired whale Fur seal has Drifter the Sea teacher writes lots important news Otter thinks of of letters. One day to be delivered, himself as a One wintry morning, Kikko heads to the pelican brings but on his first ‘lone otter’ but her granny’s house with a cake. On a reply from a task alone, somehow he ends the way she comes across a house penguin that was Little Seal gets up playing host to filled with the animals of the woods, once his pupil. lost! Will he and a travelling turtle. all having a tea party together. This The whale and his the letters find But is the turtle is a magical tale that will charm any friends decide to their way safely all that he seems? generation. revive the Olympic home? Ages 4up 26 x 22 cm, 32 pages Games of Cape Full-colour illustrations Whale! First published November 2010 102 pages 102 pages 106 pages Rights sold: Canada, China, France, Iran, Italy, First published April 2003 First published December 2005 First published October 2009 Korea, Mexico, Taiwan & Turkey Rights sold: China, Germany, Korea, New Zealand & Taiwan Rights sold: China & Korea Rights sold: China & Korea 2 3 PICTURE BOOKS

Make and Play! Masks Play Books For Babies by Koji Ishikawa Funny Faces Game by Yuichi Kimura

Monster gets everyone together to play a funny faces new game. Everyone loves the way that Monster can wiggle and smoosh his face into so many different funny new faces. Kimura manages to give his simply illustrated characters the complexity of expression that will Also available: capture the attention of even tiny infants.

Masks Ages 0up 22 x 19 cm, 28 pages Full-colour illustrations First published May 2017

Ages 0up Also available: 21 x 21 cm, 28 pages Koji Ishikawa’s best-selling picture book series, Full-colour illustrations First published June 2013 Masks has been reimagined as a craft book, Hello! Peekaboo! Yum-yum Poo-poo Moving Dolls enabling young readers to cut out and colour Masks 2 masks to wear and use in imaginative play. There are twelve masks to enjoy in total, from the magical fox to the mysterious kappa river imp.

Ages 2up Ages 0up 29 x 22 cm, 24 pages 21 x 21 cm, 28 pages Full-colour and black-and white illustrations Full-colour illustrations 29 pages, First published 29 pages, First published 29 pages, First published 29 pages, First published First published First published June 2017 First published October 2014 28 pages, December 1988 December 1988 December 1988 November 1989 October 1991 Rights sold: China, Korea & Rights sold: China, Korea & Rights sold: China, Korea & Rights sold: China, Korea & Rights sold: Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan PA-PE-Ra: Let Me Hear Night-night Shampoo Cleaning Teeth Getting Dressed The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Friends You by Junichi Yoshihara illus. by Eric Carle new 29 pages, First published 28 pages, First published 29 pages, First published 36 pages, First published 19 x 22 cm, 36 pages April 1992 November 1993 April 1996 March 1998 First published October 2001 Rights sold: China, Korea & Rights sold: China, Korea & Rights sold: China, Korea & Rights sold: China, Korea & Rights sold: China, Korea & Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan Tickling Games Squeeeze! Can You Say I Love You “Bye Bye” ?

The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Friends is a paper craft book featuring 13 universally recognised characters from Eric Carle’s portfolio of classic picture books, including the timeless favourite The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The Ages 8up 22 x 31 cm, 64 pages characters can all be built using the PA-PE-Ra technique, Full-colour illustrations which doesn’t use any tape or glue. First published July 2017 19 x 22 cm, 26 pages 19 x 22 cm, 28 pages 28 pages, First published First published November First published October 2009 March 2013 2006 Rights sold: China & Taiwan Rights sold: China & Taiwan Rights sold: China, Korea & Taiwan 4 5 PICTURE BOOKS

Night Sounds House of 100 Stories by Shigeru Tamura A Sky House of 100 Stories by Toshio Iwai On a cold, snowy day, little Tsupi finds a single sunflower seed. But he is new so very hungry that a single seed won’t fill him up at all! new “I’ll have to spread my wings and make more seeds!”, thinks Tsupi, and sets off into the skies to find a place to plant his seed.

Ages 3up Ages 3up 30 x 22 cm, 32 pages 22 x 31 cm, 32 pages Full-colour illustrations Full-colour illustrations First published July 2017 First published August 2017 Rights sold: China, Korea, Taiwan & The simplest of scenes reveals an orchestra of sound in Thailand this delightful book, illustrated in beautiful jewel tones. A boy walks to his grandfather’s house alongside a pond in the quiet of the nighttime. Each page reveals a new Also available: shift in the scene, creating a dynamic flow to the book that feels similar to watching an animation. A House of 100 Stories An Underground House of 100 Stories Tochi, a boy who likes watching A mysterious home, stretching stars, receives a letter from deep under the ground. Who on What Could It Be? someone living at the top earth could be living there? This Also available: of a 100-storey house. While book follows on from the sell- walking up the stairs, Tochi out success of A House of 100 The Andersen Riddles The World’s Wonderful by Chihiro Ishizu meets a variety of creatures Stories, only this time we are illus. by Naoko Minamizuka Secrets living in the building. Turning led underground to see what by Chihiro Ishizu the book sideways and reading magical and mysterious secrets illus. by Koji Suzuki up vertically, it is fun to follow are waiting to be told! the scenes happening in each storey.

First published May 2008 First published November 2009

new Rights sold: France, Germany, Spain, Rights sold: France, Germany, China, Korea, China, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand & Vietnam Taiwan, Thailand & Vietnam

Ages 5up An Undersea House of 100 Stories A House of 100 Stories: Counting Cards 27 x 21 cm, 23 pages Full-colour illustrations Ten, a much-loved dolly, falls into This set of cards is designed First published May 2011 the ocean and loses all of the to encourage readers to lovely clothes and accessories learn their numbers through The Wonders of Shops her little girl chose for her. Soon storytime and play, and Ages 5up by Chihiro Ishizu she discovers a mysterious house, feature numbers, illustrations, 27 x 21 cm, 23 pages Full-colour illustrations illus. by Kumiko Nakazawa with story after story of wonderful and text to read, too. This is First published September 2017 inhabitants, some of whom the perfect playtime tool to are wearing some very familiar help make learning fun. Chihiro Ishizu takes on the classic tales of Hans Christian items… Anderson in her third book of riddles and mysteries. She asks five questions about ten tales, including The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina and more. Each Ages 5up First published June 2014 27×21 cm, 23 pages Rights sold: France, Spain, China, Korea, set of questions is accompanied by the delicate, dream-like Full-colour illustrations Taiwan, Thailand & Vietnam illustrations of Naoko Minamizuka. First published September 2011 Ages 3up Rights sold: China, Korea & 15 x 31 cm Taiwan Full-colour illustrations First published December 2016 Rights sold: Korea & Taiwan 6 7 PICTURE BOOKS

Master A and Master B, Working Vehicles Master Makers of Anything and Everything Also available: Hurry Hurry! Ambulances by Yutaka Nakagaki The Queue by Fumiko Takeshita illus. by Mamoru Suzuki by Yutaka Nakagaki new Everyone knows the familiar “nee-naw nee-naw” of an ambulance.

new It’s a sound that means somebody, somewhere is in need of help. Ages 3up Ambulances and their technicians have to be ready day or night 27 x 23 cm, 32 pages Full-colour illustrations to help people who have been injured or become ill. This book also First published February 2013 introduces another type of ambulance—the air ambulance, a specially Rights sold: China & Taiwan adapted helicopter. How to Build a UFO Ages 2up 21 x 26 cm, 32 pages Ages 5up by Yutaka Nakagaki Full-colour illustrations 30 x 22 cm, 32 pages First published October 2017 Full-colour illustrations Rights sold: Taiwan First published April 2017 Also available: Master A and Master B are brothers living in MechCity. Their job is to make mechanical machines that will help the people of MechCity. This fun-filled, action-packed, colourful manga- Pin Pon Bus Pin Pon Bus Goes On the Road with the Home Ages 3up style book will entertain young readers over and over, not 27 x 23 cm, 32 pages to the Seaside Delivery Service least because the detailed illustrations mean there is always Full-colour illustrations something or someone new to notice on every read. First published November 2013 Rights sold: China & Taiwan

The Polar Bear Shoe Store Series Also available: A Wonderful Summer Holiday by Yukako Ohde The Polar Bear Shoe Store First published September 1996 First published June 2004 First published December 2005 Rights sold: China & Taiwan Rights sold: China, Taiwan & Vietnam Rights sold: China & Taiwan Hurrah for the Police Car! Scoop Scoop! Digger Fixing the Road Together new

First published November 2014 Rights sold: China, France, Korea &Taiwan The Tiniest Plimsolls First published April 2007 First published April 2008 First published April 2010 Ages 4up Rights sold: China, Taiwan & Vietnam Rights sold: China & Taiwan Rights sold: China & Taiwan 29 x 21 cm, 32 pages Full-colour illustrations Good Morning! Garbage Truck First published July 2017 Building A Home Together The Train is Coming Rights sold: Korea

It’s time for the polar bear family to shut up shop and head to the beach for their summer holiday, only to find a fantastic ice-cream shop that they just have to introduce to the rest of their friends from the wood. The only thing is that woodland creatures can’t swim so they’re not too keen on the beach.

What might a family of shoemakers be able to do about that? First published March 2016 Rights sold: France & Korea

First published November 2011 First published September 2013 First published October 2015 Rights sold: China, Taiwan & Vietnam Rights sold: China, Taiwan & Vietnam Rights sold: Taiwan 8 9 PICTURE BOOKS

Two Makes One Not Yet? How Much Longer! You Can Do Anything? by Minako Kajiri by Masamichi Ito by Taro Gomi

Also available: Before the Snow Falls by Minako Kajiri new new new

Ages 4up 27 x 19 cm, 32 pages Full-colour illustrations First published November 2017 Little Rabitta lives in the mountains, but she sets off to town to do errands for her mother. An old man lives on a faraway planet. He plants seeds and In this book, a boy sets his horse a series of A little girl drops one of a pair of special mittens, knitted After a hard day of chores, Rabitta settles down waits patiently for them to grow. Soon, he is blessed with challenges. Can I ride on your head? Can you stand up for her by her mother. She looks everywhere for her precious on a bench to take a break. Exhausted, she nods a garden filled with pudding trees, doughtnut trees, candy straight? Can you run a bit faster? The horse rises to mitten, but it is nowhere to be found. Then, one day, she sees off, and by the time she wakes, the sun is almost trees, and more—and animals from across the planet come every challenge brilliantly—but what will happen when a cat pick up a fallen shoe and run off with it. She follows the setting! cat to a house and plucks up the courage to go inside. to share in his bounty. This edition is a reissue in a new the horse has a challenge of his own? Ages 3up format. 20 x 28 cm, 32 pages Ages 3up Full-colour illustrations Ages 3up 25 x 23 cm, 32 pages First published November 2016 26 x 19 cm, 64 pages Full-colour illustrations Full-colour illustrations First published May 2017 First published March 2017 Rights sold: Taiwan

Octavius Octopus Look and Find! Picture Book Playtime! Tug-of-Walk Octavius Octopus The Helper Detective Pomme by Haruka Miike and the Jellyfish King Also available: by Etsuko Filliquet by Hiroshi Ito Octavius Octopus, Ship Captain new new new

Ages 5up 27 x 19 cm, 40 pages Full-colour illustrations Octavius Octopus has a secret dream – to First published April 2017 become a ship’s captain and travel the world. Pomme and his dog Coco are here to help – equipped with A boy and his grandmother enjoy going for walks together— Sure, he could swim around the world’s their magnifying glass and their wit! A call from a customer but where will they go and who will be fastest? The two of Captain Octavius is an octopus, so he should already know oceans, but it’s the life of a captain for sees them setting off to deliver a special parcel. Their them are constantly looking to outpace each other, enlisting everything about the ocean, but one day he comes across Octavius. One day, he meets a ship’s captain journey takes them through mazes and puzzles, following the help of anyone they can: be a dog, an emu, Tarzan, or something entirely unexpected. The Jellyfish King, twice the and begs for a chance to learn the ropes. clues and footprints to get where they need to go and find even a spaceship. Join them as they make their way through size of his boat, and a multitude of little jellyfish, enough to who they need to find. farms, fields, savannas, and cities. bring Octavius’ boat to a standstill. What a wonderful place Ages 5up 26 x 19 cm, 40 pages Ages 3up Ages 3up the ocean is! Full-colour illustrations 26 x 21cm, 24 pages 27 x 19 cm, 32 pages First published May 2011 Full-colour illustrations Full-colour illustrations First published December 2017 First published October 2017 10 11 PICTURE BOOKS

Line Up Vegetables, Tiny Flower Tales: Taciturn Rabbit and All in the Line The White Clover Crown the Yellow Umbrella by Saeko Hirokawa by Hiroshi Saito by Naoko Awa illus. by Tamiko Asakura illus. by Chikara Higashi Battered and bruised, crumbling and rotting, Just as each person has forgotten vegetables their own story, so too emerge from kitchen does each flower have a new corners and sneak out tale. This charming book new features five delicately

to a meeting. They are new angry at how people and delightfully illustrated Also available: have ignored them, stories of some of our leaving them to rot most beloved flowers. Taciturn Rabbit, instead of enjoying them Ages 6up Talkative Rabbit while fresh. 22 x 19 cm, 48 pages Full-colour illustrations Ages 6up Taciturn Rabbit lives all alone Ages 5up First published June 2017 25 x 21 cm, 36 pages 22 x 19 cm, 70 pages and wishes he had someone to Full-colour illustrations Full-colour and black-and-white talk to. Which is why he is so First published September 2017 illustrations First published May 2017 happy to meet Talkative Rabbit, who talks enough for both of Naoko Awa was a teller of fairytales, and these two stories count them! My First Cook Book A Call from a Hat among her most charming. In the first, Taciturn Rabbit hasn’t Twelve delicious months by Hiroshi Osada seen his good friend Talkative Rabbit for days due to the rain. with Coppe and Osaji illus. by Shinta Cho So he decides the best thing to do is to make himself a new by Tadayuki Marumoto umbrella. In the second, the two friends team up to harvest some 80 pages illus. by Kaori Kogashiwa delicious radishes. First published November 2015 This book is focused Originally published in 1974, this is the tale of on helping children Also available: build confidence a boy who hates taking Anthology of Tales from the Past in the kitchen by calls and his father’s

new The Assistant Major The Counsellor Has new striped hat, which not The Ghost House taking them through Counsellor and the Disappeared! small, incremental only has a habit of by Rimako Horikawa steps designed to getting lost but also has Dancing Mushrooms help them master a habit of calling to let the fundamental him know. principles of cookery.

Ages 8up Ages 8up new 21 x 19 cm, 64 pages 18 x 16 cm, 39 pages Full-colour illustrations Full-colour illustrations First published December 2017 First published November 2017

Tiptoe Through the Tulips by Yoko Yamamoto First published September 2009 First published September 2010 Ages 6up Two young tulip bulbs are 26 x 22 cm, 32 pages The Country Beyond The Little Servant swept up by the Bulb Bird and Full-colour illustrations the Waterfall Boy First published June 2017 carried away to the distant lands of Java and Turkey. On In this tale, an important government official new their travels, they encounter decides to buy a house that has long been many wonders and discover abandoned due to its ghostly hauntings. why it is that tulips have such Undeterred by warnings from locals, he moves power to make people happy. in…and strange things start to happen almost immediately.

Ages 6up 27 x 22 cm, 32 pages Full-colour illustrations First published October 2017 First published February 2012 First published March 2015

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The Rent-A-Ghost Store The Cats of the Wind Factory 07: A Tough Customer The Cats of the Wind Factory: by Rika Okabe The Secret of the Round Tank and Its Pipes by Yoshie Mizuno illus. by Kaji Izuno new new

Whether it’s home-sitting, baby-sitting, or something that In the factory that stands on a small hill on the outskirts only a ghost can do, no task is too great or small for his of town there is a large round tank. This is where the wind super-helpful, supernatural team. In this instalment, Tamotsu made by the cats is blown out across the town. In this third and his ghosts are faced with a formidable task: helping a book of the series, we discover more about the work of these seemingly scary someone to start enjoying life again. industrious cats, like the would-be wind mixers studying hard Ages 6up for their exams, or the playful tricks of a mischief-making cat 21 x 16 cm, 87 pages who has joined the factory team. Full-colour and Black-and-white illustrations First published May 2017 Ages 8up 21 x 16 cm, 135 pages Full-colour and black-and-white illustrations Also available: First published October 2017

01: What Ghosts Do 02: Trust Us with 03: It’s Hard Work Also available: For a Living Your Secret Tasks Being Floaty The Cats of the Wind Factory The Cats of the Wind Factory: Tamotsu is an Tamotsu’s The Rent-A- elementary ghosts will take Ghost store has A Factory Inspection school kid with on any task— received a new Where does the wind come The three episodes here see a difference he nothing is too request: a local from? It turns out it is the work these clever and creative cats also runs the small or too artist wants a of cats, who gather materials spring clean their factory, greet local Rent-A- big, and they ghost to pose and process them into wind, in some strange inspectors, and Ghost store! can be trusted as a model! those mysterious circular tanks even try to cure a nasty cold with secret found in the centre of every going around. work, too! town. Depending on what the cats can find, the wind might be hot, or cold, or blustery, or even sweet-smelling. First published May 2011 First published May 2012 First published May 2013 86 pages 130 pages Rights sold: Taiwan Rights sold: Taiwan First published April 2015 First published October 2016 Rights sold: China Rights sold: China 04: The Baby-Sitter 05: Night School Mission 06: First Time In Charge This time, they Ghosts are on This time, they’re take on what hand to help asked to mind they’re sure is humans in the a store for the an easy task— town whatever owner—meaning child-minding— the task, big, they’ll be in only to find small, or even charge! Can they that little girls impossible save the day for aren’t as sweet unless you’re a a customer in as they seem. ghost! need?

First published May 2014 First published May 2015 First published May 2016

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Private Eye Also available: The Phantom Princess and What If? Private Eye the Rainbow Crystal On Sundays, Private Eye by Chihiro Nakagawa by Akira Sugiyama illus. by Daisuke Nakagawa

Also available: Three cases feature in these adventures

new The Phantom Princess and the of blundering private eye Milky Sugiyama: 146 pages First published April 1992 Giant Goblin of Bukkira Mountain

new Super Star Benkei, The Tree-Climbing Mushroom Mystery, and Tutankhamun’s Before I Knew It, Private Eye Dribble. Join Milky as he tries yet again to apprehend his arch nemesis Monsieur and to outwit master pick-pocket Old Finger. Ages 8up 22 x 16 cm, 146 pages Full-colour and black-and-white illustrations First published September 2017 142 pages First published June 1994

From Tomorrow, Whenever, Wherever, That's Why Somehow Hurrah For Great Ages 8up Private Eye Private Eye I'm a Private Eye I'm a Private Eye Private Eye 22 x 16 cm, 232 pages Black-and-white illustrations First published November 2017 First published November 2014

The Phantom Princess can transform into anything she The Phantom Princess can transform into likes by putting a leaf on her head and saying the magic anything by putting a leaf on her head. The only words. But the only people who know she can do that are catch is it has to be an oak leaf from Bukkira the family of raccoons—disguised as humans—who live Mountain. So she decides to make her way to the alongside her. mountain to stock up on these magical leaves.

142 pages 150 pages 150 pages 150 pages 142 pages Also available: First published May 1995 First published May 1997 First published April 1998 First published March 1999 First published December 2000 The Hand Puppet Detectives Return of the After the Rain, Ready Steady Go! Morning and Night, The World’s Best Case File 1: Case File 4: Leave It in the Hands of Private Eye Private Eye Private Eye Private Eye Private Eye The Mysterious New Member of the Hand Puppet Detectives! the Hand Puppet Detectives Shun's life takes a turn for the extraordinary when by Kazusa Kisaragi he meets the new kid in town, and his collection illus. by Sho Shibamoto of magical hand puppets, the rabbit with a real knack for deduction. 198 pages First published November 2013, Rights sold: China Case File 2: Meet the Hand Puppet Detectives! 150 pages 142 pages 142 pages 152 pages 148 pages First published May 2004 First published December 2005 First published First published March 2008 First published January 2010 new This time, the focus is on Baron, the rather snooty September 2007 wolf hand puppet with a real nose for solving In Total Confusion, If It’s Happiness You Something Special, Looking Back On There’s a Storm crime. Somehow, Baron finds himself playing the Private Eye Want, Private Eye Private Eye It, Private Eye Brewing, Private Eye part of the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood—an insult for a wolf of his pedigree! 198 pages First published December 2013, Rights sold: China Case File 3: Ages 8up 19 x 13 cm, 214 pages The Miracle Hand Puppet Black-and-white illustrations Detective Show Must Go On! First published April 2017 Rights sold: China This time, the stories focus on Silk, the white cat hand puppet who is convinced she was born to be The fourth instalment in this series of short mysteries for 142 pages 150 pages 150 pages 150 pages 142 pages a star. Well, perhaps she might be a star, but is First published First published May 2013 First published June 2014 First published May 2015 First published June 2016 young readers, featuring a team of crime-fighting hand she any good as a detective? September 2012 puppets. They search for lost treasure, encounter a mysterious 206 pages giant fluffy creature and conquer a demon dog, and have to First published February 2014, Rights sold: China rescue their newest member, who has been kidnapped! 16 17 FICTION

The Supernatural Sweet Shop Fukumimi of Take It or Leave It: Also available: Gods in Training The Supernatural Sweet Shop 8 The Mysterious Calendar by Michiko Ito by Reiko Hiroshima illus. by Machiko Takaya by Michiko Ito illus. by jyajya illus. by Shun Sekiguchi The owner of a cleaning shop finds a calendar in an old blanket. During the succeeding months, a number of strange and unexpected customers appear in his shop.

new 118 pages, First published July 2000 new The Tengu's Noodle Bar by Michiko Ito Beniko, the mild-mannered yet magical sweet shop illus. by Minako Yokoyama owner, once again faces her arch enemy Yodomi, who The Tengu, a long-nosed goblin, loves noodles this time sends a young boy to try and destroy her shop. so much that he has opened handmade- After this fails, Yodomi herself tries to ruin Beniko, noodle shop. However, nobody turns up, even by taking the form of a black cat who meddles with Ages 8up at lunch time. 22 x 16 cm, 158 pages Beniko’s miraculous offerings. Black-and-white illustrations 150 pages, First published May 2005 Ages 8up First published 19 x 13 cm, 190 pages November 2017 The Closing-Down Sale of Black-and-white illustrations Specter’s Pharmacy First published October 2017 Fukumimi is working hard to become a fully-fledged goddess of fortune: her task is to get business booming by Michiko Ito illus. by Kaji Izuno Also available: at Take It or Leave It, the local lunchtime takeaway. Miss Specter runs a pharmacy that’s losing business Fukumimi’s relentlessly positive attitude puts her in to the big drugstore nearby. When she decides to The Supernatural The Supernatural The Supernatural The Supernatural good stead for weathering the storm of trouble that is close, her cat ornament suddenly comes alive, and all heading her way! Sweet Shop Sweet Shop 2 Sweet Shop 3 Sweet Shop 4 sorts of strange customers start to call in. 152 pages First published November 2010, Rights sold: China & Taiwan

Strange Encounters in the Sky by Hiroshi Saito illus. by Jun Takabatake

Also available: Güle güle! by Hiroshi Saito

new illus. by Tatsuno Higuchi 150 pages 160 pages 156 pages 166 pages First published May 2013 First published January 2014 First published August 2014 First published May 2015 Rights sold: Taiwan & Vietnam Rights sold: Taiwan & Vietnam Rights sold: Vietnam Rights sold: Vietnam The Supernatural The Supernatural The Supernatural Sweet Shop 5 Sweet Shop 6 Sweet Shop 7

Ages 10up Ages 10up 22 x 16 cm, 174 pages 22 x 16 cm, 198 pages Black-and-white illustrations Black-and-white illustrations First published July 2017 First published September 2016

Chaos. A state to be found somewhere in the vast sky, a place from Abbas Ali Khan makes his entrance by trying to barge which all manner of curiosities emerge. The singular mind of Hiroshi down my door—and that was only the beginning of our Saito brings us a collection of fantastical tales from the man whose strange friendship. Somehow, this silver-tongued Turkish job it is to manage Chaos and everything that comes tumbling out of it. salesman had me buying all sorts of things, which, The characters and worlds conjured by this laugh-out-loud funny author somehow, all turned out to be very useful indeed. 150 pages 166 pages 182 pages intertwine to create a book that will spark the imagination of everyone First published September 2015 First published May 2016 First published February 2017 who reads it. 18 19 FICTION

Novel Freaks! series Tasuke the Cobbler Welcome to Magic School by Eiko Kadono by Makiko Sato Here Comes Haru! illus. by Tamaki Mori illus. by Yuiko Takahashi by Mito Mahara Tokyo, 1942. Tasuke, a Ten-year-old Keita is illus. by Hirotaka Tanaka young cobbler, takes up pretty down about things, shop in a backstreet. A but one day a moving young girl, often passes arrow appears in front of new the cobbler, hard at new him. Intrigued, he follows work, and over time they it, and it leads him to become friends. But soon Magic School. Together new the realities of war take with two other students, over and Tasuke leaves to Keita has been chosen to fight. study magic! “Hey, my name is Haru. It means Spring. That’s when I was born”. There’s a new boy in school, in town with the circus, and there’s something special about him – will Ages 8up Ages 10up 22 x 16 cm, 184 pages he cast a spell on you too? This collection of five short 22 x 16 cm, 72 pages Black-and-white illustrations Black-and-white illustrations stories travels across the country with Haru, changing First published June 2017 First published December 2017 the lives of the people he meets wherever he goes. Tsutomu Muraki The Unswerving Horizon Ages 10up 19 x 13 cm, 214 pages A Story of Love and Friendship Black-and-white illustrations by Satoru Fukui by Izumi Morishima First published October 2017 illus. by Eijiro Mori illus. by Taeko Hagino

Also available: Mari, the most beautiful Yusuke accompanies his girl at school, asks Tsutomu father, a cameraman, on a Our Extra-Ordinary Families Band Girls! Muraki to be her boyfriend— location shoot to Beijing. but only for five seconds so There, he meets a lady called by Iyoko Okada by Kyoko Hamano new she can break up with her new Ming Ming. Three years later, illus. by Yuko Uramoto illus. by Takako Shimura actual boyfriend. Tsutomu Yusuke and Ming Ming are This is the stories of three girls Sara’s just started to learn the agrees to her request— reunited, this time in Japan. from very different families. drums so she can play in a band but becomes determined As time passes, he comes to From divorced parents to half- with her friends. Set in the to make the most of those know the secret from her past, siblings and being brought up near future, the book follows five seconds so she will and the two forge a bond that by grandma instead of mum, the girls as they grow—both really fall for him. goes beyond borders. the three girls find strength as individuals and as a band— in their friendship to face the while also tackling some wider Ages 10up Ages 10up 22 x 14 cm, 134 pages 20 x 14 cm, 142 pages struggle and strain that extra- social questions, too. Black-and-white illustrations Black-and-white illustrations ordinary family life can entail. First published November 2017 First published September 2017 Illustrated Stories from Stories from the Corners 214 pages 199 pages the Record of Ancient Matters of the Street First published July 2016 First published July 2016 by Yoko Tomiyasu, supervision by Sukeyuki Miura by Houko Takadono Ninomaru Investigates! Head-on! illus. by Koji Yamamura illus. by Iku Dekune by Hirochika Ishikawa by Rin Asada “Record of Ancient Matters”, The cobbled streets of an illus. by Sachiko Uguisu illus. by Yojiro Arai was the first written record old town bear witness to in Japan. Yoko Tomiyasu the lives of many people One of the boy’s in Kyota’s Narumi’s father, who breathes new life into and the many stories that

class, Ninomaru, is a little bit is working overseas, boasts that new new these ancient stories, which these lives create. This odd. He’s always investigating his daughter is a samurai. So are richly illustrated by compelling collection of some creepy, scary urban somehow she has to get a picture artist Koji Yamamura. This short stories weaves in and legend or another. Four of them of herself doing martial arts. She compelling new imagining out of these lives, showing are introduced right here in this chooses kendo and only plans to of Japan’s oldest chronicles the colour and richness that book: The Memory-Wipe Tunnel, do enough to get that photo. But is a delight to be shared resides in the town. the Reanimator Postbox, Miss it doesn’t take long for her hobby across all generations of Angelica, and The Me in Black. to become a passion. readers. Ages 12up Ages 8up 19 x 13 cm, 167 pages 188 pages 207 pages 22 x 15 cm, 255 pages Black-and-white illustrations First published October 2016 First published November 2016 Black-and-white illustrations First published September 2017 First published November 2017 20 21 NON FICTION

Ai’s Classroom Lost and Found Also available: Search for the Lost Beetles! 3. Class One, Year Six 1: The Classroom with Ai by Kohei Yamashita by Masaki Takakura supervision by Daizaburo Okumoto Ai Takeda, who has Down’s syndrome. Her Also available: condition makes some things harder for her, Lostosaurus! but Ai is bubbly and by Kohei Yamashita determined and full of new new supervision by Makoto Manabe spark.

Ages 6up 22 x 16 cm, 48 pages Full-colour photographs First published April 2013 2: Class One, Year Three

The author returns to Ai’s school, to see how school Ages 4up life has changed for her in Ages 10up 29 x 25 cm, 48 pages this touching photo essay Full-colour photographs Ages 4up 22 x 16 cm, 48 pages First published June 2017 29 x 25 cm, 48 pages Full-colour photographs about the challenges and Full-colour illustrations First published June 2017 achievements all children First published August 2015 There are more than 400 types of beetle worldwide, but many of them go through at school. This new instalment documents Ai’s journey towards graduation look so alike it’s hard to tell one from the other. With a little attention, 228 dinosaur species are introduced here, including all from Year 6 of Elementary School. As school becomes harder, there Ages 8up however, curious young readers should be able to tell these beetles— those discovered in Japan. The second half gives detailed are more things which present a challenge to Ai. But her attitude 22 x 16 cm, 48 pages shown in life-size, life-like, full-colour illustrations—apart while learning explanations of all these dinosaurs, making this a must- Full-colour photographs remains positive, as does that of her classmates. their names and characteristics in this colourful, educational book. have book for any budding palaeontologist. First published January 2015

Field Notes: The Cherry Tree Teeny Tiny Bugs' Guide The Stories Behind the Stars: by Fumihiro Konta by Tomoyuki Suzuki A Visual Guide in Autumn & Winter illus. by Yayoi Ohno by Houei Nojiri photo by Yasumaro Yaita new new new

Ages 8up 22 x 16 cm, 144 pages Ages 8up Ages 8up Full-colour photographs 25 x 19 cm, 128 pages 26 x 21 cm, 48 pages First published Full-colour photographs and Full-colour illustrations December 2017 First published March 2017 illustrations First published Did you know that most bugs are teeny tiny? In fact, the From the roots to the buds and everything in between, discover September 2017 majority of the more than one million known types of bugs everything there is to know about this quintessentially Japanese in the world are less than 5, 3, or even 2mm long? But being This book introduces some of these myths—focusing on tree with this accessible and visually vibrant introduction. small doesn’t stop these bugs from being smart, resourceful, stars seen in autumn and winter, including Orion, Canis Follow the lifecycle of the cherry tree, guided by the knowledge and even incredibly beautiful. Minor (Small Dog), and Eridanus (River of Hades)—through of a seasoned researcher and charmingly realistic illustrations words by the late astronomer Houei Nojiri. by a professional landscaper.

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BECOMING NAOMI LEON Jak zvířata spí by Pam Muñoz Ryan by Jiří Dvořák illus. by Marie Štumpfová MAD ABOUT MONKEYS Originally published by Scholastic Inc./ US in 2004 by Owen Davey Originally published by Baobab / Czech Republic in 2012 Originally published by Flying Eye Books / UK in 2015

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EL DIA DE MANUEL by Maria Jose Ferrada illus. by Patricio Mena Originally published La tournée de Les vacances de YOU ARE A LION! by Santillana del Pacifico S. A. Ediciones/ Facteur Souris Facteur Souris AND OTHER FUN YOGA POSES Chile in 2014 by Marianne Dubuc by Taeeun Yoo Originally published by Casterman/ Belgium in 2015 & 2016 Originally published by Nancy Paulsen Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group/ US in 2012

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MY SISTER LIVES ON THE MANTELPIECE by Annabel Pitcher SMART ABOUT SHARKS MALLKO Y PAPÁ MISS TWIGGLEY’S TREE Originally published by Owen Davey by Gusti by Dorothea Warren Fox by Orion Children's Books/ UK in 2011 Originally published by Flying Eye Books/ Originally published Originally published by Purple House Press/ UK in 2016 by Editorial Océano S. L./ Spain in 2014 US in 1966 & 1994 24