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Yukiko Kido is from Japan but lived in New York for more than ten years. She creates artwork digitally in a Japanese anime style and loves working with bright colors.

Yukiko Kido's entertaining, engaging, all-in-one reading and coloring book offers a fresh and fun way to develop a child's creativity and literacy. By encouraging children to color, draw, sticker, and doodle, this innovative book also reinforces reading skills by introducing beginning word families. Whimsical and bold illustrations are sure to tickle the funny bone of beginning readers and aspiring artists.

Publishers Weekly

Using people and animals that could have stepped out of a manga comic, this hands-on book introduces beginning readers/writers to word families in a clever, accumulative format. For words that use an “ug” sound, two figures hug in the first scene, next to another pair who do so on a rug; kids can fill in the “_ug on a _ug” blanks below, and answers appear at the top of each page. Each section gradually becomes more complex and interactive (“Put bugs in me!” shouts an empty mug). More than 200 stickers add to the enjoyment and help complete certain tasks, and repetition of rhymes and images help build recognition. Very smart and very fun. Ages 4–8. (Mar.)