![]() Doi employs her characteristic smudgy style, rounded, flowing shapes surrounded by soft borders of white that reinforce the cozy feel. There is no danger in Chirri and Chirra’s world-just welcome and delight. ![]() Lest children fear that the wee adventurers have become terribly prosaic, in the house’s garden they find parent birds who welcome them to a party celebrating their new babies. Following the faint sound of their names, they bicycle to “a beautiful house,” where they are welcomed in for soup. ![]() The children each pick two balls of yarn and bicycle to a weaver’s, where they fall asleep as their yarn is woven into scarves. A shop of yarn and thread “in every color!” offers the same visually detailed satisfaction as did earlier outings to a moles’ peanut farm ( Chirri & Chirra Underground, 2019) or a bumblebees’ kitchen ( Chirri & Chirra in the Tall Grass, 2017). But that doesn’t make it any less adorable. This fifth book about the imperturbable bicycle-riding youngsters is something of a departure for the Japanese series, taking them into the human landscape of a nearby town instead of a tiny, fantastical one in surrounding nature. “ Dring-dring, dring-dring!” Chirri and Chirra’s bicycle bells summon readers on another serene adventure. ![]()
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