Kappa Jizo

This hand-drawn interactive picture book app will get your kids thinking about the importance of being open-minded towards people who are different from you. You can listen along with audio recorded in English or Japanese. Kids can also have fun with interactive characters and the coloring page! You can tap, drag, and pinch the characters and objects while the story plays.

Hana and Haku’s parents always warned their children to be careful of the monsters called Kappas, but the children weren’t so sure if the Kappas were really bad or not. When the children brought gifts to the statues by the lake, they had a surprising discovery. Kappas weren’t bad monsters, after all. The Kappas thought humans were the scary monsters! After their adventure together, the two families realize that they are the same in many ways, even though they look different.

Your children will find that they can be friends with people even though they come from different backgrounds. They can even make life more interesting! For children age three and up.