Free Kid to Good Home

An hilarious story about sibling rivalry and a child’s impulse to run away from home―(and come back again!)\n“When my squawking baby brother arrived, I realized I needed a new family. No one seemed to mind when I packed my bag. I took a box and used my best handwriting to write ‘FREE KID’, then waited for some new parents to take me home.” 
Waiting in a box like an abandoned pet and encountering the passersby changes the girl’s perspective. At the end of the day, when her parents pretend they need an older sister for their new baby, she is ready to leave her box and go happily back home. 
In this comical twist on sibling rivalry, a girl decides she needs a new family―so she writes Free Kid on a box and waits in the street for some better parents to choose her. 
Translated from the Japanese edition, this accessible story is perfect for children starting on independent reading and is illustrated in a graphic comic style that really captures childlike subversive humor. Ideal for fans of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. 
A useful book to teach young children about welcoming a new baby sibling to the family, or exploring playful sibling relationships, through funny and lighthearted storytelling. 
Hiroshi Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan, and graduated from Waseda University with a degree in education. He began creating picture books while still a student and has since published many award-winning books. 
Praise for Free Kid to Good Home 
"Ito uses words and pictures with equal skill to craft this hilariously willful little visionary."―The New York Times 
"[A]n instant classic."―Children's Publishers Favorite Reads of 2022, Publishers Weekly 
“a light, engaging tale that will appeal to comic book fans and all young readers who have secretly (or not so secretly) resented the arrival of a potato-faced baby to the family.”―The School Reading List 
“young readers…will be rewarded by getting to know this can-do narrator.”―The Horn Book 
"More and more profound with every read.”―Just Imagine 
"This is a GEM of a book and I can see why it is a bestseller! Highly recommended."―NZ Poetry Shelf

Children's Books

Itō, Hiroshi

Literature & Fiction

Gecko Press ™

Osaru no mainichi (Dōwa ga ippai) (Japanese Edition)

Kodansha

Large pilgrimage of one hundred and sixty days departure in early spring of 1689 (one thousand six hundred eighty-nine), out to the Sea of Japan and brought this one home for sunlight, the Hiraizumi, up to the Ogaki through the Kanazawa. Savor deeply the "Narrow Road to the Deep North" prose Basho poured heart and soul most strongly, a completely new text book.An author bio ("BOOK author introduction information")Osako / 閑歩Born in Kagoshima Prefecture in 1960. Real name Osako Shoichi. University of Tsukuba University art expert group graduation, the graduate MFA. Kyushujoshidaigaku Human Sciences Department of Humanities and lecturer. Research with a focus on old typeface of Chinese characters, and continue creating works, when you are teaching youngerIto / HiroshiBorn in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1940. University of Yamanashi before Vice President of Engineering Dr.. The management database of the nation's largest on Basho the "Basho DB", are actively promoting the research activities and lectures (this data is what it had been published at that time by which these books were published)元禄二年(一六八九)の早春に出立、日光、平泉を巡って日本海に出、金沢を経て大垣にいたるまでの一六〇日の大行脚。芭蕉がもっとも強く心血を注いだ散文『奥の細道』を深く味わう、まったく新しいテキストブック。著者略歴 (「BOOK著者紹介情報」より)大迫/閑歩

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