Little One-Inch & Other Japanese Children's Favorite Stories
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Book Overview
With this Japanese book for children, your whole family can experience the wonder and excitement that these well-loved tales bring to story time or bedtime reading. Welcome to a fantastic world... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0804803846
ISBN13:9780804803847
Release Date:January 1958
Publisher:Tuttle Publishing
Length:61 Pages
Weight:0.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 8.3" x 7.7"
Age Range:10 to 12 years
Grade Range:Grades 5 to 7
Customer Reviews
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Delightful Book of Japanese Fairy Tales
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Introduce your children to the wonderful tales Japanese children know and love! A bit abridged, if you know the tales already, but these are a fine collection.Little One-Inch is Japan's Tom Thumb, and he is shown wending his way down a stream in a boat made of a rice bowl, using a chopstick for propulsion. There are ten stories in all, sweetly illustrated in Japanese style. Kids 3 to 10 will enjoy these; my favorite is The Rabbit Who Crossed the Sea ...on the backs of sharks he somewhat maliciously tricks into helping him. The listener learns Rabbit's hard-won lesson about fooling people, and they are given a delightfully amazing picture of Rabbit using the sharks as an inter-island bridge.One warning: there is a color picture of Little One-Inch poking a needle into the eye of a demon, but I've seen more frightening pictures in Disney publications. In general, the book has nothing scarier than what western fairy tales offer.
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