Minho accompanies his mother on her errands through noisy city streets ("honk/honk/denga/denga") as she stops at the laundromat ("tump-thud/tump-thud"), the beauty parlor ("snip/snip/snip"), the ice cream store ("reeeeeeee"), the pet store ("wuf/wuf/tweedle/wuf"), the shoe repair store ("whurra/whurra") and the supermarket ("kaching!/clink/clink") before returning to a comparatively quiet home ("plink!"). Yumi Heo's mixed-media illustrations use collage and oil painting to capture the hub-bub of an urban routine, seen through the eyes (and ears) of a small child. While this Korean-American artist's style is uniquely modern, Heo's text is comfortably traditional and child-centered, reminiscent of Margaret Wise Brown. Honor Book, 1994 CCBC Caldecott Award Discussion. (Ages 2-4)

As a child, Shiki was taken in as an apprentice to the monster hunter Gurelli. Years later, after Gurelli's death, Shiki returns to his former master's town Akamaya, looking to join a monster hunter's guild. Once in a guild, he meets Irie, whom he discovers is Gurelli's daughter. Shiki partners up with Irie to take up Gurelli's life long goal of hunting down the legendary monster Miogaruna.