I found this gorgeous book the other day at the Japanese bookstore. I’m in love with it! I had to show some restraint not to photograph every single page and put it up here. Now I just need to figure out what the story is. And the title! It goes something like this…
We’re the cutest little twins ever. Let’s go ride bikes!
I know this cute little restaurant in the middle of the forest
Not only is it woodchuck-accessible, but bear and squirrel and bunny and…
bumblebees!
our waiter is foxy!
back on our bikes
Welcome to the Forest Hotel. How long will you be staying?
the end
Oh my what a splendid book! What a great find! Thanks for sharing, these were the best pictures to start my morning with. So cute.
So so cute, I love the twins! I wish I had a Japanese book shop near me..
oh wow! to coin your grandmothers phrase, that book is sing, sing, singing!
I love coming here for my daily dose of cute!
Oh boy, it IS the cutest book ever! does it have an ISBN number so that I can go looking for it and ruin myself at amazon.jp?
🙂
ISBN4-7520-0244-2
Thanks 🙂
Hillary, I’ve been lurking, do you happen to have a ISBN for that Japanese Patchwork book you showed a few weeks back. I am on page 500 out of 1200 of my search for it on Yesasia.com
You crack me up. “our waiter is foxy!”
Haha!! I *love* your “translation.” Hilarious! Esp. the “our waiter is foxy.”
=)
Cindy –
patchwork isbn 4-579-11020-X
I would be happy to translate “Chiri and Chiriri” for you.
Chiri and Chiriri!! Hooray!
cuteness to the max man.
your interpretation is so great!!
Oh what a wonderful book!! Another great find!
love love LOVE this! fab narration as well!
That book is so adorable!
And I’ll be mailing out a package to you tomorrow, Hillary 🙂
your posts never fail to inspire me and make me smile. thanks!
oh my goodness what a sweet sweet book! love your story that goes along with it!!
Where is the Japanese bookstore you went to? Is it the one in the Mitsuwa Marketplace? I’m hoping so since I’m planning to go shopping there this weekend specfically to look for Japanese books.
I love the bumblebees especially. That is very cute.
this book is so so beautiful!!
Your postings are always full of fun! I love that book…how flippin adorable.
I am a children’s book fanatic (much to my husband’s dismay) and I absolutely MUST have this book and the other by the same author about the same twins… I know nothing of Japanese but the illustrations are just beautiful! Why, oh why, do I live in a state where there are no known Japanese stores?!
That IS the cutest! I’m glad you shared just so I can drool. The color’s are beautiful.
Chiri and Chiriri find a coffee shop…
there are various tables…
and the bees are drinking tea!
The fox said “sorry to keep you waiting”
the road was bumpy through the forest
the reindeer says good evening…