Tomo and His Animal Friends


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For your little explorer! Join Tomo and his best friend Maya as they meet jellyfish, an octopus, a bear, and many more animals around their island. Tomo and His Animal Friends is a perfect fit for babies and toddlers to build vocabulary! Don’t miss Trevor Lai’s Tomo: Adventures in Counting and his picture books Tomo Explores the World and Tomo Takes Flight. An Imprint Book “Sure to spark wonder and imagination in young readers...will likely be a hit with young innovators and explorers.” —School Library Journal




Tomo Explores the World


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"A young islander named Tomo loves to build things and problem- solves through construction to go on grand adventures with his friend Maya and his dog Captain"--




Tomo: Adventures in Counting


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Perfect for little adventurers! Your little one can count to 10 while exploring Tomo’s island home, from wild life, to Tomo’s own inventions, to stars in the sky. Tomo: Adventures in Counting is a perfect fit for babies and toddlers building early counting skills! Don’t miss Trevor Lai’s Tomo and His Animal Friends and his picture books Tomo Explores the World and Tomo Takes Flight. An Imprint Book Praise for Tomo Explores the World: “Sure to spark wonder and imagination in young readers...will likely be a hit with young innovators and explorers.” —School Library Journal




Tomo Takes Flight


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For fans of Dora the Explorer and Bob the Builder comes Tomo Takes Flight. Tomo wants to build a machine to help him fly, but he can't seem to get it right. When he discovers that a rare island bird is living right by his home, he studies the bird and realizes how to finish his invention!Together with his best friend, Maya, and expert tracking dog, Captain, Tomo learns to fly--logging the experience into his beloved adventure journal.




Tomo: Adventures in Counting


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Tomo's adventures are now available for a younger set. Readers can count their way from one to ten through Tomo's island home. Perfect for fans of Dora the Explorer and Bob the Builder, this board book will delight little adventurers and inventors.




The Friend


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The Friend


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The Inland Sea


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"An elegiac prose celebration . . . a classic in its genre."—Publishers Weekly In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His existential ruminations on food, culture, and love and his brilliant descriptions of life and landscape are a window into an Old Japan that has now nearly vanished. Included are the twenty black and white photographs by Yoichi Midorikawa that accompanied the original 1971 edition. Donald Richie (1924-2013) was an internationally recognized expert on Japanese culture and film. Yoichi Midorikawa (1915-2001) was one of Japan's foremost nature photographers.




Perspectives on Social Memory in Japan


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This collection of essays represents the first interdisciplinary study in English to consider social memory in Japan across a wide range of issues and phenomena. The volume examines a variety of memorialization subjects, including music and poetry, artefacts and tools, oral testimonies and written documents, ritual and ceremonies as well as art and artists.




The Tomo


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I'm too busy to babysit, so I hope you and that mongrel are up for the job. Phil, and his father's beloved heading dog, Blue, have to spend the Christmas break working on a sheep station while Phil's dad undergoes out-of-town, cancer treatment. The station manager, Chopper, isn't happy having a teenager in his care and certainly not a sheepdog that doesn't understand his signals. Things start to improve for Phil when Chopper's step-daughter, Emara arrives back from holiday, but a wayward ram and a poor decision plummets both boy and dog into danger. Phil will need all the strength he's got to get out alive.