Books with author Satoshi Kitamura

It’s all about the joy of making music, and finding an appreciative audience.Igor has a loud and distinctive voice, and he cannot sing in tune. He is drummed out of the Dawn Chorus for not being musical enough, so he takes singing lessons. But his teacher says that not only is he always out of tune, he has no rhythm either. Poor Igor. He goes off into the desert, where at least he can sing to himself without being asked to stop. He builds a nest on a big rock, and starts to sing. But the rock is in fact a gigantic bird – a Dodo – who likes his music so much it wakes up in order to join in.

A unique new story about the joys of painting from this gifted picture book artist.Mr. E is having trouble with his contribution to the painting exhibition. Nothing seems to be right. His fellow-artists suggest he try painting a landscape, so he sets off into the country to look for the perfect view. At lunchtime, he has done his best but he’s still not satisfied, so he decides to take a rest. While sleeping, he dreams that the local animals come and make some changes to his painting — Bird adds a bluer sky, Sheep adds a brighter green grass, and Mr. Wolf groups all of them together to add focus.When Mr. E wakes up he knows just what to do to make his painting right!

Award-winning Satoshi Kitamura's illustrations bring vividly to life this astonishing and empowering story about self-belief and overcoming fears. In a soft comfy nest in a safe warm place there snoozed a great big orange thing called the Yes. He was snug, but the Yes had a Where to go to. So he left his nest and went trundling out. But the Where was an endless place of Nos. They teemed and seethed. They picked and nipped, and snipped and snicked. The Yes yessed in all his goodness and bigness and yesness. But was he strong enough to overcome them?

Find out who is hiding in the hole, behind the foliage, or in the tree in this pull-the-tab book for small hands. Pull the tab . . . it's rabbit. Pull the tab . . . it's butterfly. Pull the tab . . . it's squirrel. Pull the tab . . . it's frog. Where will the little duckling find his mom? Award-winning artist Satoshi Kitamura has created a special novelty book with a simple read-aloud story for the very young to enjoy time and time again.

A collection of comic tales about the lovable but dopey cat, BootsA welcome return of the sleepy board book character, Boots, last seen and enjoyed in Me and My Cat? In a collection of humorously philosophical tales with titles such as “Operation Fish Biscuit,” and “Pleased to Meet You, Madame Quark,” Boots gets up to all sorts of ridiculous mischief. Told in an engaging comic strip style.From the Trade Paperback edition.

A young boy takes an imaginative climb into an attic of infinite possibilities in this ode to a child's fantasy world from the team behind A Boy Wants a Dinosaur A small boy, bored with all his toys, suddenly notices a trapdoor in the ceiling that can be reached by climbing the ladder of his toy fire engine. Once up in the attic he finds a window that opens many other windows, entering a world where anything might happen, and he meets a very special friend.