The Hello Kitty: Hello Songs lets children dance and sing along to 20 songs using a detachable toy digital MP3 player. The interactive book is designed for children ages 18 months and older. Each two-page spread in the book features the lyrics of four songs, each marked with illustrated icon that match an icon in the toy digital MP3 player. To play a song, children spin the wheel on the MP3 player to find the corresponding icon on the LCD screen. As they dance and sing along, kids can watch the animated icon move to the music.The MP3 player has Play, Shuffle, and Stop buttons. The Shuffle button plays three songs at random.
Sing along with Hello Kitty to playful melodies that your child will love! Press buttons to hear the sweet tunes and sing along with the lyrics. This is a sturdy board book with colorful song spreads, and will keep your child entertained for hours. 3AG-13 button cell batteries included; 6 triggers, 6 melodies and 5 song spreads.
It's no wonder why kids love Little Sound Books. This electronic picture book featuring Disney Pixar's Planes includes favorite characters, colorful pictures, and seven sound buttons. Character voices and story sounds make these already exciting stories even more fun to read.
In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization—the spread of goods and images labeled cute (kawaii) from Japan to other parts of the industrial world. The concept of pink globalization connects the expansion of Japanese companies to overseas markets, the enhanced distribution of Japanese products, and the rise of Japan's national cool as suggested by the spread of manga and anime. Yano analyzes the changing complex of relations and identities surrounding the global reach of Hello Kitty's cute culture, discussing the responses of both ardent fans and virulent detractors. Through interviews, Yano shows how consumers use this iconic cat to negotiate gender, nostalgia, and national identity. She demonstrates that pink globalization allows the foreign to become familiar as it brings together the intimacy of cute and the distance of cool. Hello Kitty and her entourage of marketers and consumers wink, giddily suggesting innocence, sexuality, irony, sophistication, and even sheer happiness. Yano reveals the edgy power in this wink and the ways it can overturn, or at least challenge, power structures.
It's Hello Kitty's birthday, and she's inviting all her friends over for a party to celebrate. Readers can join Hello Kitty as she plans her party, opens presents, spends time with friends, blows out her candles, and makes a wish. Includes stickers. Full color. Consumable.
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured—and transformed—the world’s imagination. “A masterful book driven by deep research, new insights, and powerful storytelling.”—W. David Marx, author of Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style Japan is the forge of the world’s fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga and anime, Pac-Man and Pokémon, online imageboards and emojis. But as Japan media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation, these novelties did more than entertain. They paved the way for our perplexing modern lives. In the 1970s and ’80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, gliding on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in the “lost decades” of deep recession and social dysfunction. The end of the boom should have plunged Japan into irrelevance, but that’s precisely when its cultural clout soared—when, once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and multimedia empires like Dragon Ball Z were more than marketing hits. Artfully packaged, dangerously cute, and dizzyingly fun, these products gave us new tools for coping with trying times. They also transformed us as we consumed them—connecting as well as isolating us in new ways, opening vistas of imagination and pathways to revolution. Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, Pure Invention reveals how Japan’s pop-media complex remade global culture.
Welcome to the magical world of Hello Kitty! Explore baby's first shapes with Hello Kitty, her twin sister Mimmy, and her super-cute friends in this gorgeous Hello Kitty Shapes board book. Babies and toddlers will love the adorable pictures, and reading with your child will help them learn to recognise their first shapes. This book is perfect for little Hello Kitty fans everywhere!
Join Hello Kitty and her friends in this Look and Find adventure. Seven brightly illustrated scenes will prompt the reader to find several objects in each picture. For added fun, there are seven activities in the back of the book with an early learning focus for you and your child to complete together.
