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Bizarre and uplifting tales from one of the most ingenious picture book illustrators today Meet Pot-san, a tubby little teapot who loves to pour tea. He and his tabletop friends--Teacup, Milk Jug, Sugar Bowl, and Spoon--have lots of adventures, and they'd like their readers to join them too! Illustrated in Satoshi's quirky style, he demonstrates how far the imagination can flow even about the seemingly mundane.
Publication
Andersen Press (2012), 32 pages
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LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
Pot-San the teapot and his various tabletop friends - Teacup, Spoon, Miss Salt, and others - enjoy a variety of adventures in the four short stories contained in this picture-book. In The New Teacup, our hero's worries about the newcomer to the table prove unfounded, while in The Flying Saucer,
Although author/illustrator Satoshi Kitamura is Japanese, and currently lives in Japan, it seems that many of his picture-books were first published in the UK, where he lived for many years. Pot-San's Tabletop Tales falls into that category, and was released by the London-based Andersen Press in 2012. The stories here have a gentle, quirky sense of humor, and will appeal to young children who enjoy tales about the adventures of anthropomorphic objects - think nursery rhymes about spoons, and so on. The watercolor artwork captures the humor of the text, and has an amusing, cartoon-like style that is very appealing.
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Pot-San's dream about a UFO is mirrored by the arrival at the table of Cheese Cake. The Flying Tray sees the table companions embarking on a dangerous game involving flight, while Miss Salt explores the arrival of another newcomer in the group...Although author/illustrator Satoshi Kitamura is Japanese, and currently lives in Japan, it seems that many of his picture-books were first published in the UK, where he lived for many years. Pot-San's Tabletop Tales falls into that category, and was released by the London-based Andersen Press in 2012. The stories here have a gentle, quirky sense of humor, and will appeal to young children who enjoy tales about the adventures of anthropomorphic objects - think nursery rhymes about spoons, and so on. The watercolor artwork captures the humor of the text, and has an amusing, cartoon-like style that is very appealing.
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Language
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Japanese
Physical description
32 p.; 8.94 inches
ISBN
1849393788 / 9781849393782