Keiko Narahashi

Two girls celebrate all the things that friends can do together.

After facing danger and demons to help a young woman, a poor farmer receives a magic purse that always refills itself with gold.

A child enjoys a glorious day in the rain, listening to the varied sounds it makes as it comes down.

Illustrations and rhyming text provide examples of what is soft and hard, warm and cold, wet and dry, long and short, and light and dark and describe how a puppy is all these things at once.

Rhyming text lists a series of animals in their natural habitats, from a fawn in the grass and a snail underneath a leaf to a buzzing bee and two racing hummingbirds.