Abstract

Winter survival for animals - ``Everyone is amazing after all!'' Pokota, a gluttonous raccoon, learns that squirrels and mice store up nuts in preparation for winter, and tries to imitate them, but... It doesn't work. Pokota is depressed and her friends gently call out to her... A story about preparing for winter based on the ecology of raccoons, drawn by Yumi Shimokawa in beautiful miniature paintings. This is a heart-warming work filled with the gentleness of recognizing each other's individuality, saying, ``Everyone has something they're good at.'' People who are big, people who are fast, people with beautiful voices, people who remember things well, people who are quick-witted, people who can take things seriously...everyone is different. If you compare only one thing, you may end up with ``some people who can do it, and some people who can't,'' but if you compare them in a variety of things, you will find that there is an infinite amount of value.

Author’s Information

Born in Tokyo. Lives in Chiba Prefecture. Since 2001, he has been studying illustration through the Kodansha Famous Schools (KFS) correspondence course, and after completing the same course, he has studied animal miniature painting (world life art) at a classroom directly managed by KFS. In 2013, the book won the Grand Prix at the 7th KFS Picture Book Grand Prix sponsored by the same school. Debuted as a picture book author with ``Looking for Stars'' (Kodansha). His other works include ``Neene Anone'' and ``Oswari Goso'' (Kodansha).