Each story features a little boy named Sato, who is now a rabbit, and his adventures in nature. There are seven little stories in this book entitled “A Tiny Pond”, “A Sea of Grass”, “A Night of Stars”, “Watermelon”, “A Window to the Sky”, “Walnuts”, and “Forest Ice”. Then I realized that there are aspects of it that remind me a lot of Goodnight Moon, and then I realized young kids will enjoy it very much. It is very imaginative and creative, but I was concerned some of it might get lost on young children. In other words, Sato is every child at play.įrom the January/February 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.To be honest, it took me a while to warm up to this book. Sato, in text and (gorgeous) pictures, is industrious, curious, experimental, and focused, using the found materials around him to fashion inventions (a curtain made of rain, a rolled-up red carpet made of fallen leaves) that enhance his surroundings and provide an arena for his imagination. Like many narratives that celebrate joy and harmony, it ends with a wedding. There are other creatures in Sato’s world, mostly small children in costumes with animal ears, like his, and he even has a party where he plays the tuba to accompany the rain’s “music.” But for the most part, these small stories are solitary adventures in a benign, quirky setting full of soft pillows, delicious snacks (what would a bit of moon taste like?), and surprising transformations. Then he finds a daisy-looking flower, and when he rotates it like a steering wheel, green leaves shower down upon him. He turns it, and with every rotation more and more trees pop into leaf. In “The Green Screw,” Sato comes across a tiny, green, screwlike sprout. 1/21), returns for seven cozy, dreamy, nature-based adventures. Sato, the boy in the rabbit costume from Sato the Rabbit (rev.
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