![]() Afterward, everyone eats cloud-like ‘rainbow-colored steamed buns from the hot spring, sprinkled with sugar.’ These exquisite touches give the book a magical feeling, as if it were a dream of childhood." -Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal ‘The ice on the buds melts and the flowers bloom,’ perfuming the warm water. Behind it, they discover cheerful forest creatures sipping hot drinks, reading aloud and playing marbles with ‘the frozen buds of many kinds of flowers.’ When the girls and animals go to bathe in a hot spring, they bring the frozen marbles with them. ![]() "While riding their bicycles (Dring-dring, dring-dring!), Chirri and Chirra find a door made of ice. ![]() ![]() While spa treatments and allaying stress may seem like grown-up interests, modern-day kids are living in an adult-made world of media supersaturation and technological pyrotechnics the Chirri and Chirra books allow young readers to escape into an adult- and complication-free dreamscape of animals, sweets and unimpeded fun." -STARRED REVIEW, Nell Beram, Shelf Awareness ★ "Kaya Doi is on to something with her fantastical-nonsensical Chirri and Chirra books. ![]()
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