Sumo Colors

 

Sumo Colors is an adorable bilingual Japanese/English illustrated book for babies and children by Sanae Ishida. Due out 6th Sept 2022 from Sasquatch imprint Little Bigfoot, it's 22 pages and will be available in boardbook format.

This is such a fun book with engaging colorful and fun illustrations full of movement and learning opportunities. Each of the illustrations covers a full page with simple inset text describing the pictures simply with the color themed paintings in both English and Japanese hiragana / IPA. The illustrations are full of subtle little extras which will provide lots of opportunity for hunt and find during reading time.

I really liked that this little book (and the others in the series) is full of Japanese vocabulary which is easy to understand. This would make a wonderful all-ages book for babies up to adults who want to learn a few rudimentary words as well as simple cultural things from Japan. The whole series is adorable and full of fun and worth collecting.

Additionally, and it has no real bearing on the book review, but the author/artist, Sanae Ishida's own website and blog are wonderfully creative and full of beautifully designed and constructed sewn clothing, watercolors, printables, papercrafts, and insight. She's a multi-talented creative soul and I am in awe of her sheer productivity. 

Five stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.