Japan Space & Stars Picture Book

About this book

Written and produced in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu — a space picture dictionary made in Japan, for children everywhere.

Japan Space & Stars Picture Book: My First 500 Japanese Words gives young readers the words to name everything in the night sky — in English and Japanese. All 500 words come with a big friendly picture, the Japanese word in kana (the way children in Japan read it), romaji so anyone can say it out loud, and a QR code for FREE audio of every word.

Blast off through 10 chapters: the planets and the solar system, stars and constellations, the moon and moonlight, comets and shooting stars, rockets and spacecraft, astronauts and life on the space station, telescopes and stargazing, galaxies and deep space, the Tanabata star festival story, and the satellites and space cities of the future. Children learn the real names — Mercury to Neptune, Orion and the Great Bear, Sirius and Vega, the Milky Way's star lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi — not just "star" and "moon".

Perfect for bilingual families, Japanese-language classrooms, homeschoolers, and any child who looks up and wonders. No Japanese reading skill is needed: romaji is on every word, and the free listening page reads all 500 words aloud in English and Japanese.

Part of the "My First 500 Japanese Words" series (28 volumes), written and produced in Japan by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC.