The natural course outside the house: This is a very pleasant picture book of natural observation, which centers on animals fed or observed in the neighborhood. Most of the contents are around insects. Bats, lizards, toads, ducks, house lizards are also described. Ishimori,the author, by sort of clumsy but realistic painting style, depicts the biological world in his eyes and records the first-handed information obained by his observation and feeding. When reading this book, you will feel as if you went outside the house with him and had a natural course.