"Chiri to Chiriri: Yuki no Hi no Ohanashi," written and illustrated by Kaya Doi (Published by Alice Kan, 2010) Story outline One snowy day, two girls, Chiri and Chiriri, venture out on a bicycle ...

"Picky to Pocky no Haiku Ehon: Oshogatsu no Maki," written by Kozaburo Arashiyama and illustrated by Mizumaru Anzai (Published by Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, Inc., 2013) Story outline On the first ...

Katsushika Hokusai, from Drawings for a Three-Volume Picture Book (c.1823–33) The museum has now published the manuscript of nearly 200 ink-on-paper drawings for the first time, following a major ...

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, University of Surrey Roehampton, London. Exhibition curated by Okiko Miyake and Tomoko Masaki ; essays by ...

Historian Leonard S. Marcus’s new work, Pictured Worlds, surveys 101 of the literary art form’s greatest practitioners. In this excerpt, Marcus delves into the rich global history of picture books and ...