Mii-chan can speak Japanese / written by Chino Nakano ; illustrated and translated by Hana Kinoshita Thomson
みいちゃん, 日本語 できるよ / 中野千野 (文) ; トムソン 木下華 (絵)

What kind of experiences do multilingual background children grow up with every day? What kind of things do they notice, struggle with, think about, and spend daily life? How much do we listen to their voices from the heart of such children while we are being chased in everyday life? This book is born from the desire to reconsider "language learning" from the voices of such children's hearts. Nowadays, the number of multilingual background children are increasing all over the world through international marriages, overseas assignments, study abroad, overseas migration, evacuation from disasters, and so on. Even if we do not move between countries or regions, we can still experience moving between languages and cultures by communicating with people online. This is the reality of the era we now live in, as we welcome these multilingual background children into our lives. Given this era that we are living in, how will you interpret Mii-chan and her mother's interactions in their everyday lives, in the kitchen and living room?