Who Ate It?

by Taro Gomi

While searching for grapes, sausages, ice cream, and other food hidden among the animals and people pictured in the author's distinctive illustrations, children learn to distinguish shapes and colors and recognize new words.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Japanese Literature

24 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1991

About the author

Taro Gomi (五味太郎) is a major children’s illustrator and writer. He has more than 400 book titles to his credit. His work has been widely translated into 15 other languages.


Tarō was born in Tokyo and he graduated from ID department, Kuwazawa Design Institute. His readers range from babies to adults, with an equal number of fans overseas. His work has been appreciated considerably with both domestic and international honours such as the Sankei Jido Shuppan Bunka Award, Bologna Children's Book Fair Award among others.


Along with authoring children's books, he is well-known in the fields of Stationery design, clothing design, production of young children's animated videos, CD-ROMs, essays etc.


His popular books published in English include Everyone Poops, Santa Through the Window, Where's the Fish?, My Friends and The Crocodile and the Dentist.

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having previously read eleven board books by Taro Gomi, I was a little confused by this one as usually there is a very brief story with the illustrations.
This one was asking the child to find which animal ate a specific item of food.
For example who ate the sunny-side up eggs. Then we see the answer in the facing page of cattle and we seethe eggs superimposed on one of the cows.
Happens that this title,who Ate It? and a companion title, Who Hid it? were Mr. Gomi’s first two published titles. Gomi’s art and ability has grown into very a very unique board book style.

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very cute sight gags that explore "You are what you eat."

[Tsugumi · Rating 5 out of 5]

これを読みながら、この食べ物好き、食べたいって言ってくる

[Irina H. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This very simple, adorably illustrated book was one of my favorites as a child. This is perfect for small children.

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gomi snuck in some counting here. Cool.

[Riley Yoder · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m so good at guessing what animal ate each food. この本は良いです。 I’m find myself really enjoying the illustrations and want to read more works by Taro Gomi.

[Rachelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a lovely, graphically playful book. Loads of fun to "read" even with a language-limited tot. Best of all, the title sounds like a lost Devo track. Thanks, Peter!