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Hamtaro Pop-up Playset
Currently one of the hottest children's television programs on the Cartoon Network!
When ten-year old Laura moves to a new town, she's not the only one how has to make new friends. Her pet hamster, Hamtaro, also needs to get used to his new surroundings and find new hamster friends. Meet Hamtaro and his gang of hamster pals, known as "The Ham-Ham Gang" as they join forces to help Laura solve various problems and embark on countless adventures.
This book opens to create four settings from the Hamtaro TV show—including the Ham-Ham Clubhouse, Laura's house, and the park—where children can play with punch-out figures of the Ham-Hams, and even punch-out snacks and treats! It's like a dollhouse inside a book!
When ten-year old Laura moves to a new town, she's not the only one how has to make new friends. Her pet hamster, Hamtaro, also needs to get used to his new surroundings and find new hamster friends. Meet Hamtaro and his gang of hamster pals, known as "The Ham-Ham Gang" as they join forces to help Laura solve various problems and embark on countless adventures.
This book opens to create four settings from the Hamtaro TV show—including the Ham-Ham Clubhouse, Laura's house, and the park—where children can play with punch-out figures of the Ham-Hams, and even punch-out snacks and treats! It's like a dollhouse inside a book!
20 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 2002
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About the author
Ritsuko Kawai
65 books8 followersRitsuko Kawai (河井 リツ子 Kawai Ritsuko, born March 3, 1964) is a Japanese manga artist known as the creator of the Hamtaro franchise. She was born in Osaka, Japan, and received a design degree from Kyoto Saga University of Arts. After graduation, she set out to Tokyo to seek her fortune as a comic-book artist.
Kawai originally created Hamtaro as storybooks for children first published in 1997 (serialized in Shogaku Ni Nensei, a magazine for Japanese schoolchildren published by Shogakukan) and adapted into an anime television series in Japan in July 2000. The animation series based on her Hamtaro books began broadcasting in English in the United States in July of 2002. Her Hamtaro books have sold more than 6 million copies in Japan.
Other than Hamtaro, Ritsuko Kawai has created other shōjo manga, serialized in Ciao magazine.
Kawai originally created Hamtaro as storybooks for children first published in 1997 (serialized in Shogaku Ni Nensei, a magazine for Japanese schoolchildren published by Shogakukan) and adapted into an anime television series in Japan in July 2000. The animation series based on her Hamtaro books began broadcasting in English in the United States in July of 2002. Her Hamtaro books have sold more than 6 million copies in Japan.
Other than Hamtaro, Ritsuko Kawai has created other shōjo manga, serialized in Ciao magazine.
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