Taro Gomi. Chronicle, $15.99 (36p) ISBN 978-1-4521-5138-0
First published in Japan in 1983, this delightful holiday tale features die-cut windows through which Santa peers into the houses he visits. But Gomi’s Santa—who tools around in a helicopter and wears a mustache instead of a beard—isn’t paying the...
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Taro Gomi. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-1125-4
If evidence is needed of Gomi’s persistent, perennial appeal, look no further than this story about an energetic boy, which was first published 30 years ago in Japan. The artist’s round-headed figures and economy of line are instantly recognizable;...
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Taro Gomi, Author William Morrow & Company $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-06731-1
Harry is the first to wake up, first to breakfast, first to leap over the garbage can, first to tumble down the slideand the first to get hurt. In fact, a couple of times being first doesn't pay offHarry ends up first in the bath, and he's the very...
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Taro Gomi. Chronicle, $16.99 (36p) ISBN 978-1-4521-4515-0
A girl who stands at the ocean’s shore, her back to readers, doesn’t move one iota in this breezy story, first published in Japan in 1979 and rooted in a familiar question: “What is over the ocean?” The girl’s imagination makes repeated leaps across
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Taro Gomi. Chronicle, $6.99 (22p) ISBN 978-1-4521-0834-6
First published in Japan in 2004, this hide-and-seek style board book follows a pair of yellow chicks as they try to keep tabs on their mother. “Mommy! Mommy!” they cry in early scenes, to which she replies, “Here I am!” But things aren’t always...
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The creator of Everyone Poops
here focuses on a common if less universal experience: a child becomes separated from a parent. Originally published in Japan in 1983, the book has minimal text. What carries the book is Gomi's quirky, stylized...
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Taro Gomi, Author William Morrow & Company $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-06420-4
When Albert recovers from his illness, he discovers that his trumpet""Blat! Blatchoo!''has caught his flu. ``Sleep well,'' Albert says as he tucks the trumpet in bed. By morning the trumpet is ``Good as New!'' First published in Japan, Gomi's...
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Taro Gomi, Author William Morrow & Company $11.95 (25p) ISBN 978-0-688-06241-5
A glowing cerise fish swims in the shining turquoise water of a fish bowl, eye-catching and intriguing. ""There's the fish,'' the minimal text declares. On the following pages, when the fish leaps out of its bowl and hides chameleon-like among the...
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Taro Gomi, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-050522-1
Coco and her Grandma spend most of a day trying to get together, just missing each other, until their luck changes. Meeting halfway between their homes, they agree to make the place their permanent rendezvous. PW praised the ""childlike naivete in...
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Taro Gomi, Author Seuil $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-2-02-061396-5
There may be years of artistic diversions for young readers in Scribbles: A Really Giant Drawing and Coloring Book by Taro Gomi. This hefty paperback volume boasts more than 360 pages of designs, shapes and puzzles to color in, cut out and...
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Taro Gomi, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $10.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-87701-551-2
As a bus progresses on its route to the garage, where it will park for the night, various travelersactors, commuters, familieshop off at their stops. When a number of riders is named (for example, 10 baseball players disembark and head for a playing
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Taro Gomi, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $11.95 (33p) ISBN 978-0-87701-626-7
A winsome calf provides the backdrop--literally--for this charming story. With each turn of the page, the young animal is imaginatively transformed to reflect some activity of the four seasons: snow melting, seedlings springing up, harvest, all the...
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Taro Gomi, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $9.95 (33p) ISBN 978-0-87701-688-5
In this ode to everyday activities and things, a free-spirited girl hops, jumps and kicks her way across the countryside, paying homage to her friends along the way. Like a satellite launched into perpetual motion, the constantly moving child...
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Taro Gomi, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $13.95 (23p) ISBN 978-0-87701-859-9
The round-faced children in this inviting, large-format volume are busy indeed--demonstrating just about every action word known to children. In a style suggestive of Richard Scarry, each word is labeled alongside the figure carrying out the action.
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Taro Gomi, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0021-1
A bevy of bright faces comprises this small, interactive board book, the first in the Peek-A-Boo series. Sturdy, highly glossed pages showcase the cheerful visages of various animals, humans or toys that have open holes in place of illustrated eyes.
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Taro Gomi, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $4.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8118-1022-7
``A perfect picture book,'' said PW about this seasonal paean graced with a simple text and cheery artwork. Ages 4-8. (Apr.)
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Taro Gomi, Author, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, Translator Kane/Miller Book Publishers $13.99 (27p) ISBN 978-0-916291-45-7
Okay, so everyone does it--does everyone have to talk about it? True, kids at a certain stage of development may find the subject riveting--but their parents may well not want to read to them about it. Here we learn that birds do it, bees do it,...
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Taro Gomi, Author, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, Translator , trans. by Amanda Mayer Stinchecum. Kane/Miller $7.95 (27p) ISBN 978-1-929132-14-0
"An elephant makes a big poop. A mouse makes a tiny poop," and so the text goes, describing all sorts of creatures and people who eat and thus defecate. Ages 18mos.-4yrs. (Oct.)
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Taro Gomi. Chronicle, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-5918-8
This cheerful picture book is less about counting and more about exploring the concept of numbers and the many ways they are used, from telling time to keeping score and creating home addresses so mail gets to the right place. Though numbers...
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Taro Gomi. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-7028-2
The phrase “two sides of the same coin” aptly describes this clever, skitlike story from Gomi (I Really Want to See You, Grandma). On the left side of every spread is a crocodile with a painful cavity who doesn’t want to see the dentist—but knows he
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Taro Gomi. Chronicle, $6.99 (22p) ISBN 978-1-4521-6301-7
In the continuation of a series featuring underdog automobiles and vessels, a diminutive pink and white boat sails from harbor to sea. An encouraging voice accompanies the boat (“Look at Little Boat go!”) and alerts bigger crafts to be cautious (“Be
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Taro Gomi. Chronicle, $7.99 (26p) ISBN 978-1-79721-874-8
With his signature simple text and rich graphic style, Gomi presents a brief tale of three little chicks who head out for a day of adventure in this cheerful board book. The wide-eyed, yellow siblings “run energetically” across green fields and then
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Taro Gomi. Chronicle, $18.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-79721-710-9
Gomi (The Crocodile and the Dentist) illustrates this wide-ranging compendium of words and phrases with his signature cartoons, here generally rendered as thumbnail-like drawings. The book’s first section, naming words, details the way that a...
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