Abstract

Children meets insects with funny and strange shapes in the woods. Why do they have long bodies, long legs, and long whatever? The book looks at the mystery of their bodies. There are also commentary pages at the end of the book.

Author’s Information

Yuta Kitamado is an illustrator and a designer. He had grown with and had been familiar with little creatures since his childhood. This is his first picture book.

Takako Kanchiku writes books to tell the wonder of the nature. She loves the small creatures which one can find in the woods, moutains, the roadsides, and so on. She has written numerous children books with concerning about living things.

Seiichi Okuyama is a chief curator of the Itami City Museum of Insects. He has wirtten several books about insects incuding "Japanese Insects 1400" published from Bun-Ichi Sogo Shuppan.