Author: Rieko Nakagawa (中川李枝子) Recent works: Guri and Gura's Gururi and Gura, Guri and Gura and the Flower Girl, Guri and Gura's Big Cleaning, and 34 titles in total About the author: Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. After graduating from the Tokyo Metropolitan Nursery Teacher Training School, she worked as a nursery teacher while steadily pursuing creative writing with a children's literature group. In 1962, her story No, No, Kindergarten! swept many Japanese children's literature awards, and in 1980, she received the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for The Puppy Rokku Comes Home. She now devotes herself entirely to writing. Her works include Guri and Gura's Bread Making, Guri and Gura's Guest, Guri and Gura Play Together, Guri and Gura Go Swimming, and First Snow. Author: Yuriko Yamawaki (山脇 百合子) Recent works: Guri and Gura Play Together, and 32 titles in total About the author: Born in Tokyo, Japan, she graduated from Sophia University. She serialized picture books in the magazine Mother's Friend, and her works include Guri and Gura's Bread Making, Guri and Gura's Guest, Guri and Gura Go Swimming, and The Goblin in the Forest. *Her original name was Yuriko Yamawaki, but after marriage she now works under the name Yuriko Omura. This book realistically portrays the changing seasons and daily life across the twelve months of the year. Through the everyday adventures of the baby mice Guri and Gura, the abstract sense of the seasons is expressed in a way that feels natural and easy to understand. With its lively rhythm and rhyme, it's a wonderful book to read aloud to children.