What if the world is ruined when I'm an adult?

One day, my older brother came home from kindergarten and whispered to my younger brother with a serious expression.
“You know what? Something terrible is going to happen in the future.” “What, really?” According to what the adults say, in the future, terrible diseases will spread, wars will break out, aliens will invade, and the world will be destroyed.
But the grandmother reassures the child who is worried about the future that there is nothing to worry about.
Adults often talk about the future, but it's rarely true.
The child nods and says.
“Well, Dad is like that too.
“They said it would be sunny today, but it rained.” “Really? Well, even so.”

A child who was worried about the future comes up with a magical phrase thanks to his optimistic grandmother.
'That can't be the only thing!' Just this one word will solve everything.
No more worries about not being able to run, your shoes being too small, or the carrot side dish being tasteless.
If you can't run, you can be good at snowball fights. If your shoes are too small to wear, you can use them as nice flower pots. If you don't like carrots, you can make a plan to ban carrots when you grow up.
Because there are endless possibilities to choose from in the world.


That can't be all there is to it, right? The world is full of endless possibilities!

The new work by Shinsuke Yoshitake, winner of the Bologna International Book Fair Ragazzi Award Special Prize and four awards at Japan's MOE Bookstore Grand Prize, "That Can't Be the Only Thing," is a picture book that shows how wonderful "possibility" can be.
Shinsuke Yoshitake, widely loved by readers for his quirky imagination and lovely illustrations, presents a novel and contradictory perspective on 'uncertainty' in this book.
Just like the protagonist who worries about what might happen in the future, everyone is afraid of uncertainty.
But if you think about it carefully, there is more than just one future.
The future may be scary, but it can also be full of fun and excitement.
The moment you realize that uncertainty is another name for possibility, fear quickly turns into excitement.


≪That Can't Be the Only Thing≫ is a book that talks about how exciting 'possibility' is and how it can create a wonderful world.
I hope that children who give up too easily or feel afraid of things they have never tried before will read this book and gain the courage to take on the challenge.
Because the protagonists who can fill an uncertain future with hope are children.