Hello Kitty is a pop star! Follow her from first audition to world fame. Dress her for every occasion, from stadium tour, to pop magazine front page with the reusable stickers in this amazing book.. This book will provide hours of fun for all young Hello Kitty and pop fans. With dozens of pop and rock outfits to dress Hello Kitty in, you'll be spoilt for choice. Use the stickers again and again as you change Hello Kitty's superstar style and make sure she's dressed for pop success.

Sing along with Hello Kitty to playful melodies that your child will love! Press buttons to hear the sweet tunes and sing along with the lyrics. This is a sturdy board book with colorful song spreads, and will keep your child entertained for hours. 3AG-13 button cell batteries included; 6 triggers, 6 melodies and 5 song spreads.

In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization—the spread of goods and images labeled cute (kawaii) from Japan to other parts of the industrial world. The concept of pink globalization connects the expansion of Japanese companies to overseas markets, the enhanced distribution of Japanese products, and the rise of Japan's national cool as suggested by the spread of manga and anime. Yano analyzes the changing complex of relations and identities surrounding the global reach of Hello Kitty's cute culture, discussing the responses of both ardent fans and virulent detractors. Through interviews, Yano shows how consumers use this iconic cat to negotiate gender, nostalgia, and national identity. She demonstrates that pink globalization allows the foreign to become familiar as it brings together the intimacy of cute and the distance of cool. Hello Kitty and her entourage of marketers and consumers wink, giddily suggesting innocence, sexuality, irony, sophistication, and even sheer happiness. Yano reveals the edgy power in this wink and the ways it can overturn, or at least challenge, power structures.

A fascinating illustrated look at various forms of Japanese popular culture: pop song, jazz, enka (a popular ballad genre of music), karaoke, comics, animated cartoons, video games, television dramas, films and "idols" -- teenage singers and actors. As pop culture not only entertains but is also a reflection of society, the book is also about Japan itself -- its similarities and differences with the rest of the world, and how Japan is changing. The book features 32 pages of manga plus 50 additional photos, illustrations, and shorter comic samples.

The Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture covers the theories, media forms, fads, celebrities and icons, genres, and terms of popular culture. From Afropop and Anime to Oprah Winfrey and the X-Files, the book provides more than just accessible definitions. Each of the more than 800 entries is cross-referenced with other entries to highlight points of connection, a thematic index allows readers to see common elements between disparate ideas, and more than 70 black and white photos bring entries to life.

The Hello Kitty: Hello Songs lets children dance and sing along to 20 songs using a detachable toy digital MP3 player. The interactive book is designed for children ages 18 months and older. Each two-page spread in the book features the lyrics of four songs, each marked with illustrated icon that match an icon in the toy digital MP3 player. To play a song, children spin the wheel on the MP3 player to find the corresponding icon on the LCD screen. As they dance and sing along, kids can watch the animated icon move to the music.The MP3 player has Play, Shuffle, and Stop buttons. The Shuffle button plays three songs at random.