Take a look at it

● Books are toys
Most children distinguish between books and toys. This is because the idea is that toys are fun to play with, and books are about learning something.
〈Take a Look〉 is a playful picture book that changes your thinking. It's not just a book to read and read, but it's designed so that turning the pages one by one can be a fun activity. The characters in the book speak to young readers. Let's have a power struggle to see who is stronger. He will push the bookshelf as hard as he can, so I ask him to turn the page.
Readers will easily flip through each page. At this point, you end up laughing at the animal's reaction. You can feel as if you are having fun playing with a friend. As readers happily turn the pages, they naturally think that the book is fun, like a toy, and can approach it in a more friendly way.

● The fun is doubled by each person’s unique speaking style.
There is no descriptive sentence in 〈Take a look at it〉. It consists only of metabolites spoken by the animals that appear. So the reader feels more like talking with friends.
In 〈Take a Look〉, various animals appear and there are just as many speech bubbles. However, readers can quickly figure out who said what.
‘It was a shameful use of a hand. From the snake that talks about its external appearance by saying, 'I don't have hands!', to the timid sheep that says, 'You can call me Miss from now on,' after it confidently says that it won't fall for you and then falls, to the sheep that loses the battle of strength and says ' Even the bull gets angry and says, ‘Do it again!’
In the speech bubbles of <Take a Look>, the words are classified according to the appearance and personality of the animals. Readers will naturally think about who told the story and what the animals' personalities are, and have great fun while reading the various expressions as many as the animals that appear.

● Relationship between reading and exercise
The animals that appear in <Take a Look> are each expressed as exercising. The rhinoceros beetle is playing rugby, the frog is weightlifting, the snake is hockey, the eagle is Taekwondo, the sheep is boxing, the ox is professional wrestling, and the elephant is wrestling. Since the setting involves a struggle of strength, it could be said to depict animals exercising, but in fact, there is a more complex reason behind it. In other words, reading is also like exercise.
Exercising is difficult and difficult when you first start, but the more you practice, the more your body changes, the better you become, and the more fun you see yourself doing well. Reading is like this. At first, it feels difficult, boring, and difficult to understand, but the more you see, the more you know, the faster you understand, and the more fun you have.
〈Turn the Pages〉 trains young readers to turn the pages of a book one by one, just as they train young readers to exercise. And when you finally close the book, it makes you feel the joy and pride of success. Before you know it, young readers will gain confidence in reading and find great enjoyment in it.

● The more you look at a picture, the more you find new meaning.
〈Take a Look〉 appears simple at first glance because there are no background pictures, but upon closer inspection, it is a carefully structured picture book. Ten ants are disappearing one by one as the scene progresses. As heavier and heavier animals appear, the lines marking the ground become deeper and more visible, and the vertical lines move from right to left each time you turn the page.
This is because it was carefully structured with young readers in mind, who pay close attention to even the smallest pictures. By looking at it in a variety of ways, such as once to see it lightly, twice to see the characters having a power struggle, and three times to see the surrounding animals, the reader can feel the taste of reading more deeply, such as learning new things they did not know the first time. There will be.