TOMO

NOSHi

PUBLISHING

FOR THOSE WHO SHAPE TOMORROW.

TOMONOSHi! PUBLISHING is a Black‑owned publishing house dedicated to the liberation of imagination. Our catalog blends children’s literature, cultural philosophy, and theological storytelling crafted to inspire curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.

FEATURED TITLE

WATERMELON SUMMERS

HEAVY. HOLY. HONEST.

WATERMELON SUMMERS
Quick View
WATERMELON SUMMERS
$40.00

WATERMELON SUMMERS is a Southern Afrofuturist coming-of-age novel by MR. TOMONOSHi—a lyrical, ceremonial autoethnography blending fiction, memory, and Black theological imagination. Framed as a field journal, it explores family, ritual, and emotional inheritance through the eyes of Coltrane Johnson III. A sacred record of Black life in the South. A spiritual archive disguised as a novel.

A curated trio of TOMONOSHi works that anchor the house’s imagination, philosophy, and emotional range.

ESSENTIAL READING

BLACK THOUGHTS BLACK THOUGHTS
Quick View
BLACK THOUGHTS
$22.00
DEAR BLACK BOY DEAR BLACK BOY
DEAR BLACK BOY
$20.00
THE TOMONOSHi WAY THE TOMONOSHi WAY
Quick View
THE TOMONOSHi WAY
$28.00

THE CATALOG.

BOOKS THAT LIBERATE IMAGINATION.

  • SLICES OF BLACK AMERICAN LIFE

    SLICES OF BLACK AMERICAN LIFE

    COLORFUL. ENERGETIC. ABSURD.

  • DEAR BLACK BOY BOOK COVER

    DEAR BLACK BOY

    UPLIFTING. LIBERATING. MOTIVATING.

  • THE TOMONOSHI WAY BOOK COVER

    THE TOMONOSHi WAY

    PROFOUND. POETIC. SPIRITUAL.

  • THERE'S A UNICORN IN MY BACKYARD BOOK COVER

    THERE'S A UNICORN IN MY BACKYARD

    ANIMATED. INVENTIVE. FANTASTICAL.

  • BLACK THOUGHTS BOOK COVER

    BLACK THOUGHTS.

    EDUCATING. EMPOWERING. ENCOURAGING.

  • ATHLETE BOOK COVER

    ATHLETE

    PSYCHOLOGICAL. CULTURAL. RAW.

  • HEY A.J.!, IT'S SATURDAY

    WHIMSICAL. WILD. WONDER-FULL.

  • WATERMELON SUMMERS PAPERBACK COVER ART

    WATERMELON SUMMERS

    HEAVY. HOLY. HONEST.

  • MARTY MAG

    MARTY MAG VOL. 1

    EXPERIMENTAL. QUIRKY. HUMAN.

  • HEY A.J.!, IT'S BEDTIME

    IMAGINATIVE. PLAYFUL. FUN.

ADD TO CART

ABOUT MR. TOMONOSHi!

MR. TOMONOSHi wearing sunglasses and a beanie hat with a pom-pom, dressed in a black long-sleeve shirt, crossing his arms against a plain wall.

MR. TOMONOSHi is a multidisciplinary author, illustrator, and educator whose pedagogical practice rooted in emotional inheritance, cultural ritual, and Black sociological imagination.

The founder of TOMONOSHi! Publishing—the home of his ceremonial philosophy, the TOMONOSHi Gospel.

His work is a celebration of the fantastical whimsy of Black life, a poetic excavation of ancestral memory through emotional archaeology, and a living form of Black American Futurism. Through books, performance, and ritual storytelling, MR. TOMONOSHi crafts mythic infrastructure for legacy, healing, and imaginative expansion—equipping generations to remember, imagine, and reimagine.