『くだものと木の実いっぱい絵本』

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▽秋だからりんごのページをお目にかけます。
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こんな本ができてた。
完成までにじつに4年かかってしまった。
編集の吉田亮子さんと、一緒に、うんうん うなりながら、あーだろ、こーだろいいながら作ってきて、やっと。
花の時期、実のなりかけの時期、収穫の時期、それぞれ取材にでかけて、色鉛筆でひたすらスケッチした。取材中、脚立から落ちたり、100色以上のの色鉛筆をひっくり返すなんて事は、日常茶飯。色鉛筆を拾って元に戻すのもはやくなった。庭のあんずの花、びわの花を提供してくれたAちゃん、Yちゃん、しょっちゅう出没するわたしに農園中の果樹をこころよくスケッチさせてくださった川﨑の農家小林さんご一家、そして、この本に3年もつきあってくださったデザイナー原純子さんに、それぞれ感謝です。
果物の専門家の三輪正幸さんが監修してくださっています。あすなろ書房からです。

I made this.
It took four years to finish it.
I worked with an editor, Ryoko Yoshida and I have finally finished the book.
I covered farms during flower season, baby fruit season and harvest season, and I drew what I saw using color pencils, and took photos.
I often fell off ladders, and often spilled my can of one hundred color pencils as I drew. I can currently put them back into the can very quickly!
Thank you to my friends A and Y, who gave me apricot flowers and loquat flowers from their garden. Thank you to the Kobayashi family, farmers in Kawasaki, who often allowed me to draw bunches of trees at their farm, and thank you also to Junko Hara, graphic designer, who helped me with this book for three years.
Masayuki Miwa, an authority on fruits, acted as my supervisor.
The book is published by Asunaro shobo.
The title of the book is, "A Picture book of Various Fruits and Nuts".