What do crocodile teeth remind you of? What does the red comb of a rooster remind you of? What does a lion's nose look like? What does the body of a dragonfly look like?
Taro Gomi, an international children's book master in Japan, He put this little imagination into play, so he made "Who Ate It?" ", "Where is the hidden object? "These two interesting picture books.
The sentence patterns of the two books are quite simple, and every time a page is turned, a question is used to challenge children's observation skills
In addition to using the method of "finding and looking" to train observation skills, Gomi Taro also specially designed the fun of "counting and watching" in the book. As the number of pages increases, so does the difficulty of visual recognition and counting.
About the author
The author Gomi Taro is a wonderful work in the Japanese children's book world. He devoted himself to the creation of children's books at the age of 30. He has completed more than 200 picture books in just over ten years, His illustrations are similar to the visual images of children, cute and simple, and he is good at contrasting high and low saturation tones in color, making the theme distinct and prominent.
鱷魚的牙齒讓你想到什麼呢？公雞的紅雞冠讓你想到什麼呢？獅子的鼻子像什麼？蜻蜓的身體又像什麼呢？
日本國際級的童書大師五味太郎每次看到鱷魚的牙齒，就忍不住想到牙刷，他將這一個小小的想像加以發揮，因此成就了《誰吃掉了？》、《藏在誰那兒呢？》這兩本饒富趣味的圖畫書。兩本書的句型都相當簡單，每翻一頁就以一個問句來挑戰小朋友的觀察力，如：「草莓被誰吃掉了？」「荷包蛋被誰吃掉了？」「蠟燭藏在誰那兒呢？」「鉛筆藏在誰那兒呢？」讓小朋友在不同的動物或人身上，找到那些被藏起來的東西。除了以「找找看」的方式來做觀察力的訓練外，五味太郎還在書中特別設計了「數數看」的趣味，從第一頁的2隻大象（公雞）到最後一頁的12個小朋友，隨著頁數的增加，同時增加了視覺辨識與數數兒的難度。
作者五味太郎是日本童書界的奇葩，三十歲才投身於童書創作的行列，短短十幾年來就完成了二百多本圖畫書，他的插畫表現接近小朋友的視覺影像，可愛又樸拙，在用色上則擅長對比的高低彩度色調，使主題鮮明突出，在《誰吃掉了？》《藏在誰那兒呢？》這兩本書中，每一個藏起來的物體都藏得很好，完全融入整幅圖畫中，無形中增加了閱讀時的趣味。
喜歡五味太郎的讀者，一定很熟悉他作品中一貫的幽默，他的童書適合細細品味，越讀越能體會他的巧思。當你在獅子臉上發現一個草莓鼻、在小朋友頭髮上發現一個冰淇淋、在乳牛身上看到荷包蛋、或是蠟燭變成了長頸鹿的角，連大人都忍不住要發出會心的一笑！