Hakusensha Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Yasufumi Takagi) will release "Obake Dance" (Text by Omusubi Hiroba, Illustrations by Hiroyuki Arai) on July 1, 2026 (Wed). Parent-child picture book time and reading events are a big hit! In the middle of the night when everyone is asleep, ghosts come saying "Odoron Odoron Odoronron♪"! Let's have fun moving our bodies with the ghosts that appear one after another, like Ittan-momen and Karakasa-obake. With Hiroyuki Arai's charming and pop illustrations and the rhythmic wordplay of the picture book unit "Omusubi Hiroba," parent-child picture book time and reading events are a big hit! Includes the sheet music for the original song "Obake Dance" composed by Toshihiko Shinzawa. From "Obake Dance" ©︎Omusubi Hiroba, Hiroyuki Arai / Hakusensha From "Obake Dance" ©︎Omusubi Hiroba, Hiroyuki Arai / Hakusensha From "Obake Dance" ©︎Omusubi Hiroba, Hiroyuki Arai / Hakusensha Obake Dance ■ Author: Omusubi Hiroba / Hiroyuki Arai ■ ISBN Code: 9784592763956 ■ Series Name: Kodomoe no Ehon ■ Price: 1540 yen (1400 yen + 10% tax) ■ Release Date: 2026.7.1 【Popular Previous Picture Books by Hiroyuki Arai】 Esagashi Shiritori ■ Author: Hiroyuta (Hiroyuki Arai + Yutaka Nakagaki) ■ ISBN Code: 9784592763321 ■ Series Name: Kodomoe no Ehon ■ Price: 1430 yen (1300 yen + 10% tax) ■ Release Date: 2023.9.6 A picture book that combines "picture search" and "Shiritori" (word chain game) has arrived! Let's connect words in a Shiritori game using the pictures densely drawn across the pages. There is no single "correct answer" in this book, so the possibilities are endless. Since you think up your own Shiritori, you can play it repeatedly according to your vocabulary development. Even if Shiritori is still difficult, the meticulously drawn, slightly retro illustrations are fun to look at. It's a book that cultivates the ability to expand imagination from a single picture and the expressive power to connect them into words fo