Hisakata Child

Hisakata Child (株式会社ひさかたチャイルド) is a Japanese publishing house specializing in books for infants and young children. According to its official website, the company publishes picture books for young children and nursery picture books, including baby picture encyclopedias (akachan zukan), educational picture books, early children's stories (yōnen dōwa), science picture books, and a wide range of other picture books. It also sells its titles directly to consumers through online mail-order on its own website. The company was established in 1981 as an affiliated company of Child Honsha (株式会社チャイルド本社), a Tokyo-based publisher of early-childhood education materials. Child Honsha had focused on direct sales to kindergartens and childcare facilities, so Hisakata Child was created to handle sales through the general trade and bookstore distribution channel. Its name derives from the place of its founding, Koishikawa Hisakata-chō in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. Hisakata Child converts Child Honsha's monthly publications into hardcover editions for the general market and also publishes its own original hardcover titles. It is responsible for the trade distribution of Child Honsha's childcare books, picture encyclopedias and large-format picture books. Hisakata Child's catalogue spans baby board books and picture encyclopedias, educational and science picture books, and early chapter books for young readers. Its website features new releases, forthcoming titles, a book search function, a section for bookstores, company information and recruitment, and a reader feedback section. The company also runs events and posts news, including author original-art exhibitions and selections of its titles for reading-contest recommended-book lists. Its titles include works such as 'O bentō basu' (The Lunch Box Bus), 'Dōzo no isu' (The Chair for You) and '109 hiki no dōbutsu kakurenbo' (Hide-and-Seek with 109 Animals), which have been developed into stationery merchandise. Hisakata Child is headquartered at 4-16-9-207 Koishikawa, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. It is a private company and remains an affiliated company of Child Honsha; the two are related but distinct from the similarly named 'Child Sha' (チャイルド社), with which there is no capital relationship. The company handles copyright and secondary-use permissions for its publications through the Japan Book Publishers Association's application process.

Hisakata Child was established in 1981 as an affiliated company of Child Honsha (株式会社チャイルド本社), a Japanese publisher of early-childhood education materials headquartered in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. Child Honsha traces its own origins to 1944, when several firms including the publishing department of the Imperial Education Association were merged to form Kokumin Tosho Kankōkai (国民図書刊行会), with Sadāo Ōhashi as president; it adopted the name Child Honsha in 1960. Because Child Honsha concentrated on direct sales to kindergartens and childcare facilities, Hisakata Child was created to handle sales through the general trade and bookstore distribution channel. The new company's name came from the place of its founding, Koishikawa Hisakata-chō in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. In its role as the trade-sales affiliate, Hisakata Child converts Child Honsha's monthly publications into hardcover editions and distributes them to the general market, and it also publishes its own original hardcover titles. It is responsible for the market distribution of Child Honsha's childcare books, picture encyclopedias and large-format picture books. Over the years the company has built a catalogue centered on books for infants and young children: baby picture encyclopedias, nursery and educational picture books, science picture books, and early children's stories. Its website now presents new releases and forthcoming titles, a book search, a bookstore section, company information and recruitment, and a reader-feedback section, and it sells titles directly through online mail order. Hisakata Child also engages in promotional and cultural activity around its books, running events such as author original-art exhibitions and participating in reading-promotion programs; its titles have been selected for reading-contest recommended-book lists, and some of its best-known works have been developed into stationery merchandise. The company remains a private, affiliated company of Child Honsha and is distinct from the similarly named 'Child Sha' (チャイルド社), with which it has no capital relationship. It handles secondary-use and copyright permission requests for its publications through the Japan Book Publishers Association's application procedure.

• 1981

  Hisakata Child is established as an affiliated company of Child Honsha to handle trade and bookstore-channel sales.

• 1960

  The company is renamed Child Honsha.

• 1944

  Child Honsha's predecessor Kokumin Tosho Kankōkai founded through the merger of several firms including the Imperial Education Association publishing department.

Specialist publisher of picture books and educational books for infants and young children, serving the general trade and bookstore channel as the sales affiliate of Child Honsha.

• O bentō basu (The Lunch Box Bus)

• Dōzo no isu (The Chair for You)

• 109 hiki no dōbutsu kakurenbo (Hide-and-Seek with 109 Animals)

• Yama ga mezamete

• Mizuumi no tatakai: Shikotsuko no amemasu densetsu

• Watashi no wakuwaku doko ni aru?

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2. 2サイトマップ - 子どもの本の出版社 ひさかたチャイルドhisakata.co.jp
3. 3著作権について - 子どもの本の出版社 ひさかたチャイルドhisakata.co.jp
4. 4チャイルド本社 - Wikipediaja.wikipedia.org
5. 5Hisakata Child - Wikidatawikidata.org