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By Katrina Goldsaito

Illustrated by Yas Imamura

On Sale: Feb 10, 2026
Page Count: 32 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9780316281126

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Celebrate springtime and the beauty of life with this hopeful and inspiring picture book.

“We wait for so long, and when they finally come, the petals fall so quickly. Mono no aware, ne?”

“What does that mean, mono no aware?”

Little Yuna can’t wait for her great-grandmother’s cherry tree to bloom. She and her hībāchan spend each day outside, watching the tree’s flowers unfurl. But once the tree blooms, the moment is so brief before it loses its petals again—this is what her hībāchan calls mono no aware. It isn’t until her great grandmother—and the petals she loves—are gone that Yuna finally understands what the phrase really means: an awareness of something’s impermanence.

Critically acclaimed illustrator Yas Imamura of Love in the Library has created stunning artwork to accompany this profound text. Readers will love pouring over these pages again and again!

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Katrina Goldsaito finds mono no aware in the ever changing sky above the fields of western Massachusetts and in her ever changing children. She is the author of the award winning The Sound of Silence, translated into seven languages, and named a Book of the Year by NPR and many others. ReachYou, her AR collaboration with Jonah Goldsaito, connects participants with their grief—mundane or profound —and premiered at the Tribeca Festival. She invites you to connect with her at katrina.goldsaito.com.

Yas Imamura is the acclaimed artist of picture books such as Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda Hall, Winged Wonders by Meeg Pincus, and The Very Oldest Pear Tree by Nancy I. Sanders. She currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She invites you to connect with her at yasimamura.com.

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Katrina Goldsaito

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Katrina Goldsaito’s favorite sound is the sound of bare feet on tatami mats. In Tokyo, she worked as an on-camera TV journalist and producer for NHK-World, and has written for National Geographic, The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, and The Japan Times. She lives near Golden Gate Park with her husband and son, and spends her days eating avocados and working on her first YA novel.

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