India Special is Kawai’s 2014 follow up to China Special and Thai Special. The interior reproduces Kawai’s marker drawings printed on a sequence of colored construction paper, which remains consistent through the 100 books in this edition. The partial wrappers are each
unique variants, collaged with a paper or sticker emblems to pedagogic posters featuring subjects ranging from the nation’s scientists, elementary classificatory systems, to home safety. Two strands of Indian pom-poms are affixed within the pages and the colophon page bears a different plastic Hindi letter; Kawai uses these throughout, exploring the graphic properties of the Indic letters, and using different shapes in place of body parts for her characteristically fanciful figures.