“Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a Tiny King,” Miura (Tools) begins. On the page, the king is no bigger than a fingertip—he’s a cross between a Lego man and a king from a deck of ...

The kids in my house almost didn’t make it past the tiara-ed princess on the cover. They are rare creatures — children who are immune to the charms of “Frozen.” I had to coax them into reading Taro ...