[For 2-year-olds] Enjoy spring-recommended picture books with your children

Same, same.Hiroshi Tada

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This is the picture book “Onnaji Onnaji” (Same Same), featuring a pig and a rabbit who are two peas in a pod.

Their clothes, shoes, and even their favorite toys are the same.

They ask, “Is there anything different?” and try out various things, but they still end up being the same.

Sometimes being too similar can be troublesome, but it also makes things fun.

And in the end, they realize there are differences after all.

When children read this book, they’ll likely start looking for things they share in common with their friends.

It’s a great book to spark interest in friends and encourage connection.

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strawberryKazuko Hirayama

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These days you can enjoy delicious strawberries even in winter, but in fact their true season is from spring to summer.

So how about choosing “Strawberries” as a spring read-aloud picture book? This book carefully depicts the process of how strawberries grow.

What’s fun is that the strawberries themselves answer about their current state to someone waiting and wondering, “Are they ready yet?” Lines like “Please wait a little longer,” and “Now such-and-such has formed,” make it feel like you’re really having a conversation with the strawberries.

It’s especially recommended for kids who love strawberries!

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Delivery for you!Naotaka Mase

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In the picture book “Delivery for You!”, a delivery van called Chōchōbin appears, bringing packages and driving through various places.

It travels along roads lined with springlike fields of rapeseed blossoms and climbs hills up the mountains.

As it drives, it passes through several tunnels, and each time it goes through one, the scenery changes.

What’s more, each tunnel has a little hole that lets you peek at the next scene in advance.

Kids will be curious and will surely want to peek through the holes.

It’s a delightful picture book with many other interactive features, so be sure to include it as a read-aloud for spring.

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14 Mice on a PicnicIwamura Kazuo

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One of the books in the series about a big mouse family, 14 Mice on a Picnic is a picture book perfect for spring.

The large mouse family goes on a picnic and encounters spring plants and insects along the way.

They chase butterflies, imitate frogs and tumble into the river, and seem to be having a wonderful time.

In the end, they sit in a circle and eat their lunch together.

Not only does it let you savor springlike scenery, but seeing how much fun the mice are having might make children want to go on a picnic too.

Be sure to enjoy this delightful springtime with the mice!

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playing houseEmiko Sunayama

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The picture book Make-Believe Cooking is sure to make playing outside in spring even more fun.

When we hear “make-believe cooking,” we tend to picture playing indoors with toy food, but in this book the characters cook using dandelions, grasses, berries, and other things that bloom or grow in spring.

With toy sets, each item is fixed—this is a vegetable, this is meat, this is cake—but the things you find outside aren’t predetermined.

Children will surely use their imaginations, pretend freely, and play in their own ways.

It’s exciting to think about what kinds of make-believe cooking children will come up with after reading this book.

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Fluffy SakuraWritten by Naoko Higashi / Illustrated by Tatsuro Kiuchi

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Let me introduce the picture book “Howa Howa Sakura.” The soft, fluffy touch of the cherry blossom illustrations is adorable, and every page feels spring-like, making it perfect for spring read-alouds.

The child chasing after the cherry blossom petals is endearing, and because the movements and features of the blossoms are expressed with various onomatopoeia and short phrases, I think children will enjoy it.

If you look closely at the petals, you’ll notice that they actually have little faces drawn on them.

Will the children notice? Enjoy the sounds of the words, chase the cherry blossoms with faces, and try discovering all the different ways to have fun with this book.

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What will you be when you grow up?Written by Michiko Ryō / Illustrated by Kōshirō Hata

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When asked about their future dreams, many people tend to name jobs like “a cake shop owner” or “a florist,” but if you ask very young children, you might get different answers.

In this picture book, when you ask children, “What do you want to be?” you get unique responses like “a whale.” And it’s not just children who have things they want to become.

Familiar objects that children know also talk about what they want to be and transform into various forms.

Children will surely watch with sparkling eyes, eager to see what they’ll turn into next.

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