This photo shows a spread of the picture book "Kudamono" (written by Kazuko Hirayama and published by Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers Inc.), for which Bookstart Japan obtained permission from the ...

The picture book opens with a scene of the girl fleeing to Japan at age 5 with her family “from warfare to protect our lives.” There, the girl is reunited with her father, who arrived before her.

A children's mobile library run by a Japanese expat in northern Thailand ... Her mother says she's always excited to get new picture books. "Before the library, she couldn't write or paint.