Hamtaro Board Game Book

by Ritsuko Kawai (Creator)

Get on board with this hot new game book release from your favorite Ham-Ham characters!

The pages of this clever board book open to create 8 different game boards. That's 8 different Ham-ham games to play. This book also includes 6 ham-ham game pieces, an electronic die, and easy-to-follow instructions.

Hamtaro is currently one of the hottest children's television programs on the Cartoon Network.

Board Book

Published January 1, 2003

About the author

Ritsuko 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.