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**Winner of the 2016 Creative Child Magazine Book of the Year
Award** **Winner of the 2015 Gelett Burgess Award for Best
Multicultural Book** When wily animals, everyday people and magical
beings come together in a collection of Japanese fairy tales,
wonderful things are bound to happen! Each story is brilliantly
illustrated by a different talented Japanese artist. The tales
recounted here are among Japan's oldest and most beloved stories.
Entertaining and filled with subtle folk wisdom, these retold
stories have been shared countless times in Japanese homes and
schools for generations. Like good stories from every time and
place, they never grow old. Kids (and their parents!) will enjoy
hearing these stories read aloud on the accompanying CD. The fairy
tales and classic stories in this collection include: The Wife Who
Never Eats--the story of a man who learns the hard way the evils of
stinginess. The Mill of the Sea--the story of how a greedy man was
responsible for the saltiness of seawater. The Monkey and the
Crab--the crabs teach a tricky monkey a lesson in fairness and
honesty. The Magical Hood--an act of kindness reaps great rewards.
Sleepyhead Taro and the Children--a story about what can be
accomplished at the right time, and with the right help and the
right spirit. The Fox and the Otter--how a fox pays the price of
deceit and selfishness. The Gratitude of the Crane--a story about
the rewards of kindness and the danger of curiosity. The Tale of
the Bamboo Cutter--a girl who starts life very tiny turns out to be
big in many ways. All disc content is alternatively accessible on
tuttlepublishing.com/downloadable-content.
Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is now widely viewed as Japan's greatest
poet of the 20th century. Little known in his lifetime, he died at
37 from tuberculosis, but has since become a much loved children's
author whose magical tales have been translated into many
languages, adapted for the stage and turned into films and
animations. Recognition for his poetry came much later. "Strong in
the Rain" - the title-poem of this selection - is now arguably the
most memorised and quoted modern poem in Japan. Both intensely
lyrical and permeated with a sophisticated scientific understanding
of the universe, Kenji Miyazawa's poems testify to his deep love of
humanity and nature. From a young age, he was fascinated by plants,
insects, and especially minerals, which he collected. At school,
his interest in nature deepened, and he began poring through books
on philosophy and Buddhism, which were to strongly influence his
later writing. Miyazawa drew on nature in a way that no modern
Japanese author had before him. Where other writers tended to use
it as a springboard for their own meditations, he saw himself not
just as nature's faithful chronicler and recorder but as its
medium: light, wind and rain are processed through him before being
recreated on the page. His mode of active engagement with nature
set him apart from virtually all other Japanese poets, and led to
his work being largely ignored by the Bundan (the literary
establishment) and misunderstood for half a century. But in the
1990s, he received unprecedented attention in the Japanese media.
The compassion, empathy and closeness to nature expressed in Kenji
Miyazawa's poems and tales appealed strongly to a new generation of
readers.
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Red Demon (Paperback)
Hideki Noda; Translated by Roger Pulvers, Translator; Adapted by Matt Wilkinson
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In a land far away a stranger is washed up near an isolated fishing
village. Unable to understand his language or why he looks so
different, the villagers decide he is a demon and must be
destroyed. Only one woman, also an outcast, befriends him. Red
Demon is a universal story told in a masterful performance of
physical theatre by Hideki Noda and a cast of extraordinary
European actors. Shot through with wit, ingenuity and sly humour,
it reveals the conflict between compassion and suspicion in a
closed community.
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