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Naomi Kojima Writer/Illustrator.

Profile:
Naomi Kojima is an author and illustrator of picture books. Born in Japan, she spent part of her childhood years in the U.S. and studied sculpture at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Kojima's first two picture books, Mr. and Mrs. Thief and The Flying Grandmother were published in New York soon after she joined a SCBWI chapter in Hatfield, Massachusetts.

Her books have been published in the U.S. and Japan, and have been translated in France, Sweden, and Indonesia. In 2006, her Japanese picture book Utau Shijimi was published by U.S. publisher Kane Miller, under the title Singing Shijimi Clams

Books:

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Utau Shijimi -The Singing Clams
published by Kaisei-sha ,2005
ISBN 4-03-331401-5 C8793

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The Christmas Song Book I&II
published by Kaisei-sha 1998
ISBN 4-03-016300-9 C0073 & 4-03-016310-6 C0073

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The Alphabet Picture Book by Naomi Kojima published by Kaishi-sha 2003 ISBN 4-03-440310-1

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