In Japan, there is a custum to worship the full moon of early autumm.

Mice children make a box seat on the tree top,and the whole family watch moon. there is vely simple story,few words, but minute pictures gives us many infomations about their country life and familly relationship. Color expression of night sight shone by the moon is excellent.
My daughter two years and 6 months old likes this book to be read ( or shown ), but a little dull for me.

This large print, large picture book is great for teaching and great for learning for young or early readers. Story is as charming as the characters.

We are huge fans of Eric Carle so I had my husband pick this up for our 2 year old at the local bookstore (based on the title). While it is a beautiful book/collaboration, it is not very "kid-friendly". There's really no storyline and half the book is written in Japanese. The first 5 pages or so consist of a different animal asking the dog "Where are you going?"...and the dog replied "To see my friend!"....I have to admit that I am disappointed with this one. I will treasure it more as an art book than a children's book.

What A Wonderful Way To Expose Your Child To A Different Culture. This is a great book. I am happy to read both the English and the Japanese to my child. It has 2 different forms of art, 2 different languages, all connected together in the middle of a lovely childrens book. It is a wonderful way to expose your child not only to another culture, but great way to get a child interested in learning another language. For those who are looking for bi-lingual books (other then spanish) know that they are hard to find and I am glad such a wonderful and famous writter has made a great example to help bring about awareness and teach children.