Abstract

There was a vending machine in that town with a view of the sea.
Many people visit the vending machine every day.
Parents and children on a walk, lovers on a date, a driver at work, a president with a problem.
They talk, laugh, and worry while eating warm udon and soba noodles made by the Ponkotsu vending machine.
They talk, laugh, worry, think, and return to their places.
One day, when they thought their daily routine would continue, something unexpected happened.

Author’s Information

Text: Yubimura Ureshina
Author, editor, Picture Book Catalyst®, JPIC reading advisor.
Representative Director of Child Roar Create Incorporated Association. After working at Kirihara Shoten and Asahi Shimbun, she joined FREIBELKAN. After working as an editor of children's books and nursery books, he served as a director of the Publishing Division.
She is the author of the picture books “Bus ga kita yo” (picture: Haruno Matsumoto/Arisukan), “Bokotachi no koto wo wasasunai” (picture: Mamoru Suzuki/Kosei Publishers), “Hontou wa dakimasu ka” (picture: Nanami Sumimoto/Sumimoto Publishing Co. (picture: Nanami Sumimoto/Kodansha) and others.

Picture: Kumiko Yamamoto
Graduated from Tama Art University, and was selected for the Bologna International Picture Book Original Drawing Exhibition in 2003 and 2005. Her picture book works include “Maru wo Sagashite” and “Kinky” (both published by Hidamarisha), “Jitensha Gasha Gasha” (written by Kasaimari/ Picture Book Juku Publishing), “Kujira no Puu Puu” (written by Masakazu Harara/ Imagination Plus), “Boku wa Makuro” (written by Yoko Hara/ Liebling).
Member of the Japan Children's Book Artist Association.