Toddler Hunting and Other Stories

Toddler Hunting and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Taeko Kono. In the English version, Lucy North was the primary translator while Lucy Lower had contributed other translation work. The English translation was first published in 1996 by New Directions Publishing. The first story in the collection was written in 1961, and the last one was written in 1971. The English translation of the collection was republished in 2018.

Kirkus Reviews stated that most of the short stories have a similar structure. John Self, in The Guardian, describes the works as "unignorably strange" and characterized by "sexual violence and masochism". Writer Gelareh Asayesh, in the Tampa Bay Times, wrote that the writing style in the collection is "unadorned". Maryse Meijer of Publishers Weekly stated that Kono does not intend to "shock" nor use "sensationalism or surprise" but instead to show how desire has a freeing feeling as well as the negative effects of having feelings of shame. Gabe Habash, in The Paris Review, stated that a lack of closure is an element in these stories.