Tetsuko Puu: The Girl Who Turned into a Balloon

by Naomi Kojima

Tetsuko is always in a bad mood, always huffing and puffing. “Keep doing that and you’ll huff and puff yourself away like a balloon”, says Mummy. And guess what? So she does, huffing and puffing away through the window, away through the clouds and the trees, floating in the air with the birds. How will she ever make it home again, into Mummy’s arms?

25 x 21 cm, 32 pages, Full-colour illustrations
First published January 2020