Eriko Sato is Associate Professor of Japanese and Japanese linguistics and the director of the Pre-College Japanese Program and the Teacher Certification Program for Japanese at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author of many Japanese language texts including the Learning Japanese Kanji Practice Book series, Reading and Writing Japanese and Japanese Stories for Language Learners, all published by Tuttle. She lives in Stony Brook, New York.

Anna Sato is co-author and illustrator of Japanese Folktales for Language Learners. She is also co-author and illustrator of My First Japanese Kanji Book, translator of 100 First Words for Toddlers, and illustrator of Reading & Writing Japanese.

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