Wonder-Filled Photo Picture Book (25-book set)

This is a 25-book set of the Wonder-Filled Photo Picture Book (Fushigi Ippai Shashin Ehon) series (Poplar Publishing).

Benefits

Free wrapping in original design wrapping paper!

Overview

“Dango Mushi Mitsuketayo”
Photographs and Text by Yosei Minagoshi

A science picture book that introduces the fascinating life of pill bugs, beloved by children, through powerful and vivid photographs. From hatching to molting, it is filled with one surprise after another.

“Shota to Natto”
Photographs and Text by Hiroko Hoshikawa and Haruo Hoshikawa / Original Concept and Supervised by Takeo Koizumi

Shota grows soybeans with his grandfather. Before long, they are transformed into “magical food”—natto. A heartwarming photographic picture book.

“Mimizu no Fushigi”
Photographs and Text by Yosei Minagoshi

There is a hidden and mysterious world of earthworms! This photographic picture book is filled with rare and astonishing scenes, including egg-laying, feeding, and overwintering.

“Unchi Restaurant”
Photographs by Takashi Shinkai / Text by Eishin Ijichi

Insects one after another gather around animal dung. This photographic picture book takes a close look at the lives of “dung-eating insects,” such as dung beetles, and is full of astonishing discoveries.

“Medaka no Boken”
 Photographs by Masakazu Watanabe
/ Text by Eishin Ijichi

Why do some rice fields have medaka fish while others do not? This photographic picture book gently reveals, through beautiful images, the environmental secrets that allow these small fish to survive and thrive.

“Mushi o Taberu Kusa”
Photographs by Kosei Watanabe
/ Text by Eishin Ijichi

Do some plants eat insects? Carnivorous plants such as the Venus flytrap and sundew have fascinating mechanisms for trapping prey. This photographic picture book explains their mysteries through beautiful photographs.

“Kurage Yura Yura”
Photographs and Text by Isamu Soyama

Purple jellyfish, knobbed jellyfish, box jellyfish, and ghost jellyfish—these jellyfish have amusing names, but they also possess astonishingly beautiful forms and mysterious life cycles.

“Hasami Mushi no Oyako”
Photographs and Text by Yosei Minagoshi

A photographic picture book that follows the parenting of earwigs living in forests and mountains. Remarkably, the mother earwig raises her young by using her own body as a source of nourishment.

“Kinoko Fuwari Hoshi no Mai”
Photographs and Text by Shabo Hani

From the cap of a mushroom, you can see a soft, drifting cloud. This is the mushroom’s “spores.” This photographic picture book lets you discover a new side of mushrooms you thought you already knew.

“Jueki Restaurant”
Photographs and Text by Takashi Shinkai

The sap that oozes from trees becomes a “restaurant” where many insects gather, including rhinoceros beetles, stag beetles, butterflies, and bees! This is a photographic picture book filled with powerful, lively images of insects in action.

“Okashina Yuki Fushigina Koori”
Photographs and Text by Takashi Katahira

On a winter day, if you go outside, you can discover strange and mysterious shapes made of snow and ice. This is a photographic picture book full of beautiful, powerful images of winter.

“Isoginchaku no Fushigi”
Photographs and Text by Isamu Soyama

This large-format photographic picture book explores the little-known life of sea anemones. The cover features a moment when a parent expels its young from its mouth.

“Koko ni Iruyo! Namekuji”
Photographs and Text by Yosei Minagoshi

A photographic picture book that explores the life and ecology of slugs. It introduces their little-known behaviors in detail, including feeding, egg-laying, and newly hatched young.

“Ari to Kurasu Mushi”
Photographs and Text by Taku Shimada

A photographic picture book that explores little-known insects living alongside ants. It introduces astonishing species that disguise themselves to resemble ants and others that cooperate and live in mutual support with them.

“Mushi Kobu Mitsuketa”
Photographs and Text by Takashi Shinkai

Insect galls are formed on plants by insects. This photographic picture book introduces these fascinatingly shaped galls and the mysterious events that take place inside them.

“Sakana no Tamago Ikinokori o Kaketa Daisakusen”
Photographs and Text by Ryu Uchiyama

For living creatures, eggs are precious treasures. Fish living in rivers protect their eggs in various ways in order to leave behind their offspring.

“Chikyu no Mori no Heart Sagashi”
Photographs and Text by Koichi Fujiwara

A picture book by biological journalist Koichi Fujiwara, featuring beautiful photographs of heart-shaped forms he discovered in forests around the world. It nurtures a love for the richness of forests.

“Mori no Hoseki Nenkin”
Photographs and Text by Fumihiko Arai

This book introduces the mysterious life of beautiful slime molds, like jewels found in the forest.

“Kinoko Restaurant”
Photographs and Text by Takashi Shinkai

The red egg mushroom is a restaurant for insects. This book introduces the insects that gather on mushrooms, as well as the “mushroom insects” that live together with them.

“Koko ni mo! Soko ni mo! Dani”
Photographs and Text by Yosei Minagoshi

Mites are often disliked, but only a small number of them are harmful to humans. Many mites play an essential role in rich natural ecosystems. This is a photographic picture book that follows the world of mites.

“Tsurara Mizu to Samusa to Chikyu no Chikara”
Photographs by Masayo Hosojima / Text by Eishin Ijichi

Icicles appear in winter. This science photographic picture book explores the mysteries of icicles, including how they grow and where they form.

“Chiisana Hunter Haetori Gumo”
Photographs and Text by Norihisa Sakamoto

Jumping spiders are often seen hopping around inside homes, but their beautiful appearance and fascinating behavior are not widely known. This book reveals how earnestly they live.

“Fuyu to Mizu no Maho Koori”
Photographs and Text by Takashi Katahira

How was it formed? Why did it take this shape? This is a science photographic picture book about ice that is fun to look at and fascinating to learn about.

“Kaminari”
Supervised by Kenichiro Senoo /  Cooperation by OTOWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD. ”OTOWA LIGHTNING PHOTO CONTEST”

Scary? Beautiful? This photographic picture book explores the mysteries of lightning—its nature and types, why it has a jagged shape, and even winter lightning—through stunning, powerful photographs.

“Tanpopo wa Hito ga Suki”
Photographs by Shabo Hani / Text by Yasuko Shimada

Why do dandelions bloom so close to people, in places like fields and roadsides? This photographic picture book follows the “strategies” that allow dandelions to continue blooming.

Recommended Age

Ages 6 and up