"First published in Japan in 2003 by Media Works Inc., Tokyo"-- Colophon.

Ohhhhh Yotsuba's back Today, Yotsuba was drawing Jumbo, okay? That's Daddy's REALLY, REALLY BIG friend. He's real nice and I guess a big baby. But he's too big to draw in Yotsuba's sketchbook So Yotsuba drew Jumbo on the street in front of our house Cool, huh? But Ena's friend Miura, who has wheels on her feet, said Yotsuba was bad at drawing...she's wrong, right? RIGHT ?

YOTSUBA heeeeeere Guess what, guess what ? Yotsuba is going to a flower store with Fuuka Yotsuba's gonna give flowers to everybody in the whole, wide world, even the police lady with her whistle that goes - PI PI PIPI PI PIPUUUUUUUU

Yotsuba met a robot at Ena's house Betcha haven't met one ever It was THIIIIIS big - but not bigger than Jumbo or anything - and it ate money Yotsuba's never met anyone who ate money before Maybe it gets more powers with more money ? Yotsuba should try giving it more money next time Huh...what happens when money-eating robots get full? Do they have to go to the little robots' room? Hmmmm...

Yotsuba's getting a biiiiike, Yotsuba's getting a biiiiiike Didja know the wheels of a bike go round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and roun - oh, Yotsuba's getting dizzy...whoooooa...

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Beep-beep-beep Yotsuba here, and riiiight on schedule Every day is a fun day, and today's gonna be even funner than the rest. We're busy, busy, busy We should write down a schedule so we don't forget what we gotta do...like go to the bathroom And go to the berry gair...um, teddy bear store with Daddy And try to fly Omigosh, Yotsuba missed toilet time already Noooo What to do? What to do?

Yotsuba loooooves playing games When Daddy's the counter at hide-and-seek, he can never find Yotsuba, 'cause I'm such a good hider And when we go to the park, Yotsuba's the bestest at swing-tag-shoe-races. Daddy says Yotsuba's just making up the rules as we go along, but Yotsuba thinks Daddy's just a sour loser. But maybe Yotsuba will let him win once in a while...

Mooooo... MOOOO... Cows are neato It's fun pretending to be a cow And milk comes from cows, so I bet they're real nice too. 'Cos milk is super-yummy, right? Yotsuba thinks so And milk comes in lotsa flavors, so cows must come in different flavors too. How else is there white milk and coffee milk and chocolate milk? Then there's the black and white cows, they've gotta make a super-secret special flavor, huh? Yotsuba wants to know Let's go ask the cows at the ranch, Daddy Come on

The ranch wasn't fun, huh? But maybe festivals will be less funner? (Yotsuba's playing opposites, ha-ha ) Yotsuba got uninvited to Fuuka's school for a culr...a clart...a cultural festival And she didn't promise Yotsuba there wouldn't be CAKE Yotsuba doesn't want a cake as biiiiiig as Jumbo, nope You wouldn't either, now would you? Ohhh And then, and then There ISN'T gonna be a great big festival for the whole town to go to And Yotsuba isn't gonna work hard and help out there with Ena and Fuuka, nuh-uh Not even for candy, nooooo way