Hello, I am here! It's been wow, half a year that I didn't show up here. Dear readers, are you still there?  I didn't write this long for some health and other personal reasons but it doesn't mean I stopped reading books with my son.  We are still in Japan. In the past months here I discovered and rediscovered many beautiful Japanese children's literature and foreign books translated in Japanese. These are just a few of many I got. We will take them all with us when we eventually return to Italy. My son turned 16 months and lately started to understand many things we say to him although he still speaks few words that make sense.  The way he reacts to books changed a lot, too. Now he picks his favourite books from the bookshelf and comes on my lap, asking me to read them aloud.  One of the most frequently picked ones are these two. One is "Who Ate It?" by Taro Gomi. As I read it, he points on the pictures to respond to my question, "who ate it?"