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| Feelings from Fighting |
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Tai has been in a fight with his good friend Kota. He was bunched and knocked down. It was painful.
Kota apologized but Tai still feels upset.
The words he said just go round and round inside "my" head. |
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Text: Aiko SHIBATA Illustration: Hideo ITO
<POPLAR Publishing> |
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| Bon apetite! |
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| We don’t think about the foods we eat every day. If we only had the materials, what would we do? A hamburger comes from the meat of a cow, vegetables come from fields, and each of these has to be cooked. The living things we eat are explained simply, and all of the people who contribute to food production are explained in a simple way in this picture book for children. |
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Text: Yukiko NINOMIYA Illustration: Ryoji ARAI
<Liberation Publishing House> |
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| Farming Experiences of Piyo-piyo |
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Do you know how the food you just ate came to be? Do you want to know the hidden secrets of fruits and vegetables? What about meat? This book looks at the mysteries of food. Co-authored by the Japan Agricultural News, it answers many of the questions that children have about agriculture by breaking the text into three easy to understand sections, from the perspectives of the dining table, the field, and ecology. |
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Editing: The Japan Agricultural News
Text: Yuji TANIMOTO
Illustration: Ikuyo KAWANO
<Komine Shoten>
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| Wolf Forest, Colander Forest, Thief Forest |
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| A long long time ago, there was still a forest and fields at the foot of the Iwate Mountain. On an autumn day, farmers came to the small fields, built houses and fields, and started life. Kenji Miyazawa uses his illustrations to tell this humorless fairy tale between people and nature. |
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Autor: Kenji MIYAZAWA Illustration: Kaoru ONO
<Kokinsha> |
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| Seeing history of a town through pictures |
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| In the beginning there was the Stone Age. As 12,000 years pass, what was once a small village by the river has transformed into a busy city. Follow the path from a village’s founding to its current state as it passes through time and see how people in each generation lived in this beautifully illustrated picture book. |
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Text: Anne MILLARD
Illustration: Steve NOON
<Saera Shobo> |
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| Map of world environments |
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| The population of the world is continuing to increase every year by 7.6 million people, and the amount of garbage generated will multiply several fold. In a ten year period, Japan’s forests will diminish 2.5 times in area, and the 1/4 of the land is becoming desert-like. In one year, 40,000 types of species of living will become extinct, and foreign influence has caused genetic mutation to begin. |
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Editing: Chie FUJITA
<Otsuki Shoten Publishers > |
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| Rescue: The Drama between Japanese-Turkish friends |
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| In 1891, a Turkish boat was shipwrecked off the cost of the Kii peninsula. Thanks to everyone’s dedicated efforts, 69 people were saved. 95 years later, in amongst the Iran-Iraq war, a Turkish airplane rescued a group of Japanese citizens. This touching story tells the drama of how two countries shed their borders to become international friends. |
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Text: Masao KOGURE
Illustration: Rutsuko AIZAWA
<Alice Kan> |
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| Message from the little lives |
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| A Cambodian girl who has been sold twice. Children used as soldiers in Sudan. The devastation of the war in Iraq. Hear the crying voices of those with little voices ? the children! The ambassador of the Japan Committee for UNICEF, Agnes Chan, provides an eye-opening account of the voices of children throughout the world. |
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Autor: Agnes CHAN
Shinnihon Publishing Co., Ltd. |
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| People around the World |
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| What sort of people are living on the planet? The vast variety of body sizes, skin colors, facial patterns, homes for living, entertainment and relaxation and spoken language all vary. This book presents various people, customs, languages, and cultures. The wonderfulness of variety in the world is told in this large picture book. |
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Illustration, Text: Peter SPIER
<Hyoronsha> |
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| Winter's Inhabitants |
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| Have you ever observed the buds on trees in parks and forests during the winter? See the faces of animals as well - Rabbits and Koala Bears inhabit these places during winter’s course. This book comes filled with delightful pictures of trees and their buds in the winter. |
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Photo: Tadao TOMINARI, Mogi TORU
Text: Arata CHO
< Fukuinkan Shoten > |
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| Little house in a big forest |
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| In the western US, there is a small house located amongst a large forest. In the house live the three sisters Merry, Laura, and Carrie. From out the wilderness bears and wolfs often appear. In the first book of the “Small House” series, see through illustration how the three sisters deal with and overcome their harsh natural surroundings. |
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Autor: Laura INGALLS WILDER
Illustration: Garth WILLIAMS
Translation: Mioko ONCHI
<Fukuinkan Shoten>
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