Author
Taro Yashima
3 books here
Seashore Story
Picture book · ages 4–8 · 300L · 1967
A quiet masterpiece—Yashima's brushwork and the siblings' patient discovery of seashore life feels like you're there, and it plants genuine ecological awareness without a hint of didacticism.
Crow Boy
Picture book · ages 5–8 · 620L · 1984
A quiet masterpiece about the power of being seen; Yashima's watercolors capture the loneliness and then the light so precisely that kids recognize their own invisibility or recognize when they've been invisible to a peer.
Umbrella
Picture book · ages 4–8 · 530L · 1985
A luminous, nearly wordless meditation on a child's sensory world — Yashima's ink-wash illustrations make rain itself a character, and kids internalize that attention and slowness are forms of joy.