Abstract

At the zoo, Little Pero sticks out her tongue
and catches clouds to make an extraordinary
cotton candy. What a commotion follows!
The story of sweet, naughty Little Pero.

Author’s Information

Shigeyasu Moriya was born in 1965 in Shizuoka Prefecture. He is an award-winning writer of
haiku and children’s literature.

Mamoru Yamamoto was born in Tokyo in 1960 and graduated from the Kuwasawa Design
School. He is active as an illustrator of books and advertisements and first developed the idea
of Little Pero in 2014 for art exhibitions, the web and merchandising. The character grew in
popularity, until in 2017 it was selected for the Bologna International Picture Book Exhibition. The　first picture book of the series was published in 2019.