Mitsumasa Anno

Anno's Alphabet

Anno's Journey

Optical illusions form structures in which curious little men can go up stairs to get to a lower place, hang pictures on the ceiling, and walk on walls.

Pictures to Stretch the Imagination

Topsy-turvies

Anno's USA

Raymond Briggs

Brief text and illustrations by ten internationally well-known artists reveal a day in the lives of children in eight different countries, showing the similarities and differences and emphasizing the commonality of humankind.

All in a Day

A pictorial journey through the traditional countryside, farms, and towns of northern Europe takes readers past familiar storybook characters, visual jokes and puzzles, tricks of perspective, and other surprises.

Introduces counting and number systems by showing mathematical relationships in nature. A wordless picture book.

Anno's Counting Book

First there is an empty field. The it is January, the first month of the year. All alone in the snow stands 1 yellow house. In front, 1 child builds a snowman. Behind the house is 1 tree and 1 black cow. Now, five months later, it is June. There are 6 buildings in the field, 6 children playing, and 6 adults working. One adult tends 6 ducks. Another drives a trains with 6 cars. From 1 to 12, through the months of the year, the town grows. More houses and trees and animals and people can be seen until December arrives with all it's magic.

Anno's Counting Book Big Book

A counting book depicting the growth in a village and surrounding countryside during twelve months.

One by one, ten children move from their old house into their new house with all their possessions. Die-cut windows reveal the interiors of the houses and the book can also be read from back to front.

Anno's Counting House

The reader is invited to find a variety of animals hidden amidst woodland scenes.

Anno's Animals

Records in drawings the author's journey through Northern Europe and his impressions of the land, the people at work and play, and their art, architecture, folklore, and fairy tales. A wordless picture book.

When the clocks strike twelve, the magical midnight circus begins. Pepe the clown will show you the way, but hurry--the circus vanishes at dawn.

Dr. Anno's Magical Midnight Circus

The reader is asked to perform a series of mathematical operations integrated into the story of a lazy man who plants magic seeds and reaps an increasingly abundant harvest

Anno's Magic Seeds

Library of Congress

Provides an annotated list of more than 300 Japanese children's books and discusses children's literature in postwar Japan

A Bibliography of Books from the Postwar Years, 1946-1985

Japanese Children's Books at the Library of Congress

Invitation to the Midnight Circus

Dix petits amis déménagent

Masaichirō Anno

A simple text and colorful illustrations introduces factorials in such a way that children new to multiplication can grasp and use the concept.

Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar

In wordless panoramas a lone traveler approaches the New World from the West in the present day and journeys the width of the country backward through time, departing the east coast as the Santa Maria appears over the horizon.

Mitsumasa Anno

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