[DeepL Translation - needs review] First place in the 12th MOE Picture Book Store Awards 2019!
Winner of the 51st Kodansha Picture Book Award!
The 3rd Miraiya Ehon Award - Grand Prize!
The 10th LIBRO Picture Book Award, Grand Prize!
The 25th Japan Picture Book Award.
The 8th Shizuoka Bookstore Award (New Children's Book Category), 2nd Prize!
A lonely cat yearns for a "name" that all the cats at the grocery store, bookstore, bakery, soba noodle shop, coffee shop, etc. have.
One day, a c...
Very cute story
You can read the book for free by watching a read aloud of the book on YouTube. https://youtu.be/IzPcy_NeCAw?si=m-r04s7GVC2WKurN
If you like cats, I think you'll like this book. Lots of really cute illustrations of cats and the language is fairly simple and the story has a nice ending.
The book is written fully in hiragana with spaces between the words.
There are a lot of videos of this book that cut off the text, and the one above is the one I could find where the text is easiest to see and