The Little One (くろいの, Kuroino, "The Black Thing") is a children's picture book by Kiyo Tanaka (田中清代 Tanaka Kiyo), published in 2018 by Kaiseisha.[1] David Boyd wrote the English translation, published in 2021 by Enchanted Lion Books.[2]
The book involves a little girl who sees a creature and goes on an adventure with it, before meeting her father at the end of the book.[2]
It was published in French, as La petite chose noire, with translation by Alice Hureau.[3]