Free Kid to Good Home

In this comical twist on sibling rivalry, a girl decides she needs a new family—so she writes Free Kid on a box and waits in the street for some better parents to choose her.

“When my squawking baby brother arrived, I realized I needed a new family. No one seemed to mind when I packed my bag. I took a box and used my best handwriting to write ‘FREE KID’, then waited for some new parents to take me home.”

Free Kid to Good Home takes a child’s impulse to run away from home to a comical extreme. Waiting in a box like an abandoned pet and encountering the passersby change the girl’s perspective. At the end of the day, when her parents pretend they need an older sister for their new baby, she is ready to leave her box and go happily back home.

Selling Points

• A light-hearted take on running away from home.
• Accessible illustrated story for children starting on independent reading.
• Graphic/comic style illustrations.
• Childlike, subversive humour.
• An enduring bestseller in Japan, now in its 31st edition.