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音と文字の本

by Taro Gomi

ぽ・ぽ・ぽと煙をはきながら、蒸気機関車がやってきました。野原をすぎて山を登る機関車のお話を擬音語と擬態語だけで語ります。

Genres: Japanese Literature, Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

Published December 1, 1988

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

[Sari Griffiths · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very very simple, but well illustrated book. The train travels through mountains then into town and the story is told only by the sounds of the train. My toddler loves it. It's fun reading as you can be as pretty creative with your reading voice.