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Marie Kondo has been enchanted with organizing since her childhood and began her tidying consultancy business as a nineteen year old student in Toyko. Today she is a renowned tidying expert, helping people around the world to transform their cluttered homes into spaces of serenity and inspiration. She stars in the Netflix hit show
Tidying Up with Marie Kondo and is the founder of KonMari Media, Inc. Marie's bestselling books
The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying and
Spark Joy have sold over a million copies worldwide, and she was listed as one of
Time magazine's 100 most influential people. Marie lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two young children, who helped inspire Marie's first picture book,
Kiki and Jax.Salina Yoon was born in Korea and emigrated to the United States at the age of four. She is an author, illustrator and format designer and has worked on nearly 200 books for young children, specializing in interactive and novelty books. She lives in San Diego, California, with her husband and their two sons.
About the author
Marie Kondo is a tidying expert, bestselling author, star of Netflix’s hit show, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, and founder of KonMari Media, Inc.
Enchanted with organizing since her childhood, Marie began her tidying consultant business as a nineteen-year-old university student in Tokyo. Today, Marie is a renowned tidying expert helping people around the world to transform their cluttered homes into spaces of serenity and inspiration.
In her #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying, Marie took tidying to a whole new level, teaching that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you’ll never have to do it again.
Marie has been featured in Time magazine, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Times, Vogue, The Ellen Show as well as on more than fifty major Japanese television and radio programs. She has also been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Summary
Tidying superstar Marie Kondo brings her unique magic to Kiki and Jax, a charming picture book story about how tidying up can spark joy in the lives of young children.
Kiki and Jax are best friends – Jax enjoys sorting but Kiki enjoys collecting and gathers a lot of stuff. Soon her home is full of things all over the place. Where is Kiki's ball? What did she do with her swimsuit? Her home has become an obstacle course and it's hard for Kiki and Jax to play together. But Jax has a plan – he teaches Kiki how to sort everything and to keep only those things that spark joy.
Once she and Jax have tidied up, Kiki has room in her life for those things that matter the most – especially Jax!
An accessible introduction to Marie Kondo - complete with a special step-by-step folding activity - this charming story will make tidying fun for even the youngest of children!
Foreword
International superstar and bestselling author Marie Kondo has created this picture book story for young children encouraging them to discover the joy of sorting and tidying their things.
Additional text
A charming and sweetly illustrated book.
