Growing Together: 4 Stories to Share

by Taro Gomi, Meagan Bennett (Designed by)

Overview

A brand-new set of refreshingly off-beat picture books from the best-selling author of Everyone Poops

From best-selling children's author Taro Gomi comes a set of four new books: Playing, Imagining, Growing, and Sharing.

Each book features a different pair of family members loving and learning from one another... seasoned with the honesty, warmth, and eccentricity that Gomi so beautifully delivers. A little boy imagines the journeys that he and his father go on together; a little girl speculates about her mother's life before she became a mom; an older brother thinks back to when he was the baby; and sisters attempt to halve and share everything in their path. Each humorously narrated story is as messy, unpredictable, and endearing as everyday life with a child!

Created for ages 2-5 years

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714871417
Publisher:	Phaidon Press
Publication date:	04/25/2016
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 7.30(h) x 1.50(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Taro Gomi is Japan's most successful children's book author-illustrator, with more than 400 books to his credit, including his perennial bestseller, Everyone Poops. He has won several awards, including the Sankei Children's Book Award and the Graphic Prize at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. He lives in Tokyo.

Editorial Reviews

"Taro Gomi delights again with this new book series for preschoolers... the Growing Together books have such a wholesome sweetness and such bold, friendly illustrations." —Cool Mom Picks

"Strikingly illustrated and pleasingly subtle, these books will grow with their readers" —Kirkus Reviews Online

"Ideal for a young family .. Beautiful colours, simple images and clear text make this a must-have collection." —Inis, Reading Guide

From the Publisher

2016-05-04
The Japanese author/illustrator of Everyone Poops returns with a quartet of gerunds.Four books combine their powers to make the Growing Together box set: Growing, Imagining, Sharing, and Exploring. All four are illustrated with Gomi's near-iconic, stylized Asian people set against stark white backgrounds (except Exploring, which features the origami-paper-colored backdrops found in Everyone Poops). Sharing centers on two sisters who joyfully share everything, though sometimes it takes a bit of imagination. Imagining features a young girl imagining her mother in successively younger stages of life till she looks "just like me!" Growing presents an older brother telling his younger brother about all the things he did when he was younger, including sleeping, crying, and falling down. Exploring features a young boy driving, scootering, boating, and so on with his father. All four books are as graphically straightforward as Gomi's previous work, though none will likely have the sticking power of Everyone Poops. Like Imagining, Growing and Exploring display a subtle, visual narrative arc . The former depicts the narrator's growth from infancy to preschool age, and the latter gives the narrator and his father increasingly complex forms of transportation, ending with a rocket ship. Since the simplicity of the text and illustrations lends itself well to very young readers, it's a shame these books feature paper pages rather than board ones.Strikingly illustrated and pleasingly subtle, these books will grow with their readers provided they aren't destroyed in the first few readings. (Picture book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews