This book is really neat. Eric Carle and Kozuo Iwamura team up in this one to bring two languages together. Eric starts the book and the story progresses to the center. Then you can flip the book over and read it from back to the middle in Japanese. The coolest thing is that the two artist/authors draw in their famous techniques where Eric uses collage and Kazuo uses water colors. This book is so cool because it brings two languages/cultures together. I like the fact that the publisher put the sounds the Japanese characters make along side of them so you can read in another language. It is exactly the same story in two different languages so for any struggling Japaneses students in you class this book could be a big help. I think this is a book everyone should check out and I am kind of embraced that I had never heard of it before. Kids will love the story and have fun learning another language.