Hiroshi Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan, and graduated from Waseda University with a degree in education. He began creating picture books while still a student and has since published many award-winning books.
Ito's deadpan humour and the character's emotive facial expressions inject jocularity in a welcome exploration of the anxiety that some children face in response to siblinghood. * Publisher's Weekly * young readers...will be rewarded by getting to know this can-do narrator. * The Horn Book *