Taro Gomi and Katsumi Komagata invited to Salon du Livre in Paris
February 2012
Japan has been selected as Guest of Honor at the forthcoming Salon du Livre, to be held in Paris from March 16-19 2012. A total of 22 authors have been invited from Japan, including Taro Gomi and Katsumi Komagata as representatives of children's literature. These two well-loved authors are both published in France; Taro Gomi's Scribbles: A Really Giant Drawing and Coloring Book is even available at the Louvre Museum. Katsumi Komagata has held many workshops in France over the years. Salon du Livre will feature a variety of events, including workshops and autograph sessions. Do make the trip to the event if you can so that you can meet the authors in person.
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| Taro Gomi | Katsumi Komagata |
Taro Gomi’s New Title Published
February 2012
Taro Gomi's latest book, Where Has the Elephant Gone?, has been published. An elephant is placed in a box and taken away from his home in the highlands. He arrives at a port and travels across the ocean. Then the box arrives at an even bigger port; but when it's opened, the elephant is nowhere to be seen. “What do we have here? The elephant's disappeared!”
But where can the elephant have gone? Maybe we should ask the elephant himself….This joyful book is full of the characteristic wit and humour of a Taro Gomi book.
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NEW! Where Has the Elephant Gone? by Gomi Taro 30 x 22 cm, 32 pages Full-colour illustrations |
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Ryoji Arai’s It’s Morning So I’ll Open the Window an Immediate Best-Seller
Februrary 2012
The new book by award-winning author and illustrator Ryoji Arai, ‘It’s Morning So I’ll Open the Window’, has proved a big hit, with 23,000 copies in 3 print runs already sold since the first edition was released in December 2011. Ryoji illustrated the book after the East Japan Great Earthquake of March 2011, and the book reflects the experiences and emotions he encountered at workshops conducted with people living in disaster-struck areas. The book depicts the joy of being alive; the simple happiness of being able to always open the window to greet the new day in the same place.
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| NEW! It's Morning So I'll Open the Window by Ryoji Arai 30 x 22 cm, 32 pages Full-colour illustrations |
Exhibiting at Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2012
February 2012
We will again be taking part in Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which is taking place from March 19 to 22 2012. We have a lot of new books to showcase this year, so we hope to welcome many of you at our stall, Hall 29 A-18.
