My First Book of Japanese Words. Michelle Haney Brown

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      Copyright © 2013 Text and Illustrations by Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.

      Thanks to Minami Morita for recording the Japanese words on www.tuttlepublishing.com.

      The illustrations in this book have been painted in tempera and acrylic on watercolor paper, then digitally colored.

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      ISBN 978-0-8048-4953-1; ISBN: 978-1-4629-1347-3 (ebook)

       (Previously published under ISBN 978-4-8053-1201-8, LCCN 2013015406)

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