Among the first Japanese picture books to reach U.S. shores was a series of keepsake volumes from the 1880s featuring traditional tales such as “Momotaro, or Little Peachling” and “The Hare ...

If you flip through a yellow children’s book written and illustrated by Japanese Paralympian Kaede Maegawa, you will see the morning routine of a cute black dog with a prosthetic leg. The dog wakes up ...

Distributed under the JY (Junior Yen) imprint, these chapter books are part of a licensing agreement with Kadokawa, whose Tsubasa Bunko label has maintained a top spot in the Japanese children’s ...

Selling over 10 million copies in Japan, these poop-themed drill books are an attention-grabbing way to get your kids to learn hiragana and katakana. Published by Bunkyosha Co Ltd, these Japanese ...

New children’s publisher Do Re Mi will launch in spring 2026 with “playful, distinctive” board books and picture books for under sevens, inspired by Japanese children’s publishing. Aiming ...

Since last summer, Bookstart Japan, a nonprofit group that promotes activities to give picture books to parents and children after reading stories to them at infant health checkups and other ...

Scholastic wanted to license her 2022 children's book Love in the Library. The deal would draw a wider audience to her book — a love story set in a World War II incarceration camp for Japanese ...

When actor George Takei was 4 years old, he was labeled an "enemy" by the U.S. government and sent to a string of incarceration camps. His new children's book about that time is My Lost Freedom.