In the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Korea, other museums featuring children’s book art now draw steady streams of multigenerational visitors; the number of such museums in Japan ...

Plus ‘Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob,’ ‘The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate,’ ‘The Wild Robot on the Island’ and ...

Funnily enough, given the agony of the selection process, it was easy to name the single best children’s book of the past 20 years. Hands down, it’s Brendan Wenzel’s “They All Saw a Cat” (2016), which ...

No rule requires Japan’s elementary school students to wear the boxy, bulky backpack known as the randoseru. But for nearly 150 years, nearly all of them have.

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 ...

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 ...

Maggie Tokuda-Hall was thrilled when the publishing powerhouse approached her to feature her book about a love story set in an internment camp during WWII. Then she read what the deal would involve.

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 ...

TOKYO -- If you were raising children overseas, what kind of picture books would you want for them?