Won Japan Picture Book Award Reader Award,
Bookstore Picture Book Award, Kindergarten Picture Book Award.
A hilarious work from the bestselling author tupera tupera!
White Bear’s underwear is missing, let’s look for it together!
The waist of the book is a pair of red underwear.
It can be put on and taken off, which is perfect for young children to laugh at!
The hollowed-out pages in the shape of underwear show different designs:
Popular stripes, upside-down carrots...
There is also one that says "I love mice"!
But these are not White Bear's underwear!
Holding up your underwear and looking for it, the reading process is like a game!
A children's game book with exquisite design and hilarious theme.
It is the best gift for little kids.
Editor's Note
Do you think this is just a pair of underwear? In fact, there are several!
Perhaps we have read many books about finding objects, guessing objects, or some puzzles and training reasoning ability, but we have never read a book with the theme of guessing other people's (animals') underwear. This book is highly praised in Japan, and even the publicity is shocking:
The world's first picture book where you take off your underwear to read (referring to the red underwear at the waist of the book, please don't get me wrong)
After talking so much about underwear, what exactly does this book want to bring to us? In addition to the cute painting style, creative subject matter, and humorous story, the author also wants readers to discover the connections between the underwear in the process of searching for them. It is not only funny and fun, but also inspires children's judgment and reasoning abilities.
There are simple ones, such as seeing carrot underwear (I guess that’s what the animal that loves carrots the most would wear, right?); there are also some that require some thought: underwear that says “I love mice” (Hey, are mice that narcissistic?). In the process of searching, children's thinking and curiosity can also be promoted, making people unable to help but keep turning the pages.
＊With phonetic notation
About the Author
tupera tupera
A group composed of Tatsuya Kameyama and Atsuko Nakagawa. The two started out with picture books and illustrations, and are also engaged in handicrafts, shadow puppetry, animation, stage play art design, etc., and are active in various art fields.
His picture book works include "Big Trees Standing in a Row", "Fish Swimming" (published by Bronze Shinsha), "Stories of the 12 Constellations", "Facial Expression Picture Book" (published by KOKUYO S&T), "Crocodile Adventure" (published by Fuyounotomosha), "Mr. Vegetable" (published by Gakken), and "Where is Mr. Octopus Going?" ” (published by Picture Book Library), “What is the Big Snake Swallowing? ” (picture book published by Du), etc.