Japan Money & Measures Picture Book

About this book

> Written and produced in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu (Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC) — an authentic Japanese picture book, created in Japan, not a mass-produced import. 500 Japanese words of money and measures — real yen coins and bills, prices, change, saving, and the words for length, weight and size! Every word with romaji AND free listening audio! > > How much is it? How much change do I get? How many centimetres did I grow? Money and measures are the Japanese words a child meets every single day — at the shop, at the market, at the kitchen scale. Most English–Japanese first-word books give money a page or two and skip measures entirely. Japan Money & Measures Picture Book: My First 500 Japanese Words is a whole world of yen and measuring in one book: > > - 500 money and measures words (not 100, not 320) across 10 chapters — coins and bills, prices and paying, saving up, wallets, banks and cards, change and exchanging, length and height, weight and weighing, size, area and volume, market and shop money, and family money time > - Real Japanese money: the 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 yen coins and the 1,000, 5,000 and 10,000 yen bills, with the holes in the 5 and 50 yen coins — perfect practice before a trip to Japan > - Romaji for every single word, so any parent can read Japanese aloud with confidence > - A picture for every word — each illustration pairs a money or measuring motif (a stack of gold coins, a price tag and register, a piggy bank, a bank building, hands receiving change, a ruler and tape measure, a kitchen scale, a measuring cup, a market stall, a family table) with the word's first kana, so children learn Japanese letters while they learn words > - Free audio QR code: scan it to open the listening page and hear all 500 words in English and Japanese — then play money detective together: find a coin, a price tag or a ruler near you, count it or measure it, and say it in Japanese! > - Real life words: price tags, receipts, exact change, breaking a bill, a piggy bank that gets heavy, growing three centimetres, one litre of milk, half fare for kids, and New Year money (otoshidama) > - The companion to Vol. 21 Numbers & Time: Vol. 21 teaches numbers themselves; this volume teaches what numbers do in real life — money and measures, with a word list that shares zero entries with any earlier volume > - Made in Japan: written and produced in Japan by a Japanese author and a Japanese publisher — authentic words, not generic ones > > Perfect for bilingual families, international families, and any child getting ready to shop, save and measure in Japanese. > > Collect all 23 volumes: Vol. 1 Animals · Vol. 2 Festivals · Vol. 3 Seasons · Vol. 4 Vehicles · Vol. 5 Food · Vol. 6 Town · Vol. 7 Daily Life · Vol. 8 Nature · Vol. 9 School · Vol. 10 Play & Friends · Vol. 11 Music · Vol. 12 Animals of Japan · Vol. 13 Jobs · Vol. 14 Weather & Seasons · Vol. 15 Body & Health · Vol. 16 Home & Rooms · Vol. 17 Colors & Shapes · Vol. 18 Clothes & Dressing · Vol. 19 Family & People · Vol. 20 Weather & Sky · Vol. 21 Numbers & Time · Vol. 22 Family & Feelings · Vol. 23 Money & Measures