Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

Many parents may see an overlap between the protagonists of this book and their own children. Vocabulary, culture tips Hikkoshi-- This means moving (house). In Japan, the peak of the moving season is ...

By Avi In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be. By Joumana Khatib Leonard S.

Thirty-two original paintings by renowned children's book illustrator Chihiro Iwasaki (1918-1974) have been discovered, with some now on disp ...

Children’s author Rieko Nakagawa, known for her beloved “Guri and Gura” picture book series about twin field mice, died of old age at a hospital in Tokyo on Oct 14. She was 89. Her family ...