Offers rhymes and colorful illustrations for the letters of the English alphabet that help introduce Japanese vocabulary in Kanji and Hiragana, as well as Romanized form.

The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Japanese language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children to learn. The goals of My First Book of Japanese Words are multiple: to familiarize children with the sounds and structure of Japanese speech, to introduce core elements of Japanese culture, to illustrate the ways in which languages differ in their treatment of everyday sounds and to show how, through cultural...