Best Selling Books by Satomi Ichikawa

Little Train toots along, taking all his passengers exactly where they want to go. "To the pond!" says the duck. "To the forest!" says the monkey. "To the mountain!" says the bear. But Little Kangaroo doesn''t say a word. He wants to go on an adventure with Little Train-adventure that leads him up a mountain, off a cliff, and back where he belongs: in his mama''s pocket. This endearing picture book is perfect for train, toy and adventure lovers everywhere.

There is a rug in his fathers shop that Mustafa loves. (It has a hole in it, so you can put it over your head and still see out.) No one else wants the rug, though lots of tourists visit the shop. His father always welcomes them"Bienvenue"and offers them tea"O cha wa ikaga desu ka?" Mustafas father would like him to know some words in other languages too, and he tells Mustafa that he may have the rug if he agrees to learn. But after the first lesson, Mustafa is so bored he runs out of the shop (with the carpet on his head). Ending up at the market, he finds a very different way of learning foreign languages....and of getting tourists to visit his fathers shop.

Nora''s outdoor tea party with her toys at the home of some friendly geese is disrupted by Benji, the greedy sheep from next door, but he eventually makes amends.

Tanya loves ballet dancing, repeating the moves she sees her older sister using when practicing for class or a recital, and soon Tanya is big enough to go to ballet class herself.

Poor Nora has stayed inside all week with a cold with only Kiki the dog, Teddy the bear, and Maggie the doll for company, while the roses bloom just outside her window. One by one, visitors pass, each stopping to pick a rose on his way. Soon there won''t be any roses left! But with a little imagination, Nora discovers just the right way to cure her sick-in-bed boredom and make her roses last forever.

A little Puerto Rican girl uses her basket full of colorful ribbons to help her hide and to help her make some new friends.

The animals of the African savanna help Meto as he tries to return the toy bear left behind by a young tourist.

Ignored while the other trees talk about how they will be dressed for Christmas, a small fir tree finds her dreams fulfilled on Christmas morning.

Mango is a stuffed penguin, but he and his boy Danny are best friends. They love to do everything together, especially visit the Central Park zoo. But when Danny gets newer stuffed animals for his birthday, Pangoo is left behind, wondering where he belongs . . . is it with the real penguins he sees with Danny every Saturday, swimming at the zoo?

Follows a year of different birthday celebrations in a little girl''s life and describes how birthdays are celebrated around the world.

Tanya loves to dance but has trouble integrating her steps with the clapping and counting of her ballet teacher, until she tries moving to the music and the sounds inside her head.

Pablito, a Guatemalan boy whose pet pig Amarillo has disappeared, uses a kite to send him a message that he still loves him.

Voici un beau livre où les enfants découvriront mille idées pour fêter tous les anniversaires. Comment organiser une fête, à la maison ou au jardin, confectionner une carte pour son meilleur ami, préparer un gâteau en forme de cœur pour sa maman, imaginer un déguisement, réaliser un cadeau tout simple mais original : tout cela vous sera expliqué dans ce livre. Satomi Ichikawa et Elizabeth Laird vous souhaitent un joyeux anniversaire !

Pablito a un ami extraordinaire : il s''appelle Amarillo, un petit cochon jaune. Les deux amis sont inséparables, jusqu''au jour où Amarillo disparaît..

A la lisière de la forêt, les sapins échangent sur la robe rêvée pour Noël: une robe à fleurs, couleur du soleil couchant, de l''arc-en-ciel, étincelante d''étoiles... Le petit sapin qui n''a pas droit à la parole se retrouve seul après le passage de l''homme. Le jour de Noël, le ciel se charge de le revêtir d''une robe blanche, scintillante de mille éclats. Un thème connu, exploité avec sensibilité.