One of the geese in the picture on Kenji’s wall flies off to join the wild geese in the sky and then returns to the picture, with interesting results.
Japan
Materials from Japan
One Leaf Rides the Wind: Counting in a Japanese Garden
In this collection of haiku, a young girl walks through a Japanese garden and discovers many delights, from one leaf to ten stone lanterns. Includes notes about Japanese religion and philosophy.
So Far From The Bamboo Grove
A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko, a young Japanese girl who has lived all her life with her family in northern Korea, escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.
Jojofu
A young man is saved from death three times by the keen senses of his faithful hunting dog. Based on an old Japanese tale.
Little Oh
A mother tells her son the story of Little Oh, a girl made of paper who becomes separated from her human mother.
Basho And The River Stones
Tricked by a fox into giving up his share of cherries, a famous Japanese poet is inspired to write a haiku and the fox, ashamed of his actions, must devise another trick to set things right.
Babar’s World Tour
Babar and his family take a trip around the world.
This Place Is Crowded: Japan
Describes transportation, education, home life, holidays, and other aspects of life in the heavily populated island nation of Japan. Part of the Imagine living here series.
The Letters
In Japan, the death of her former landlady triggers a young woman’s memories about her father’s death when she was six years old, and the special way the old lady helped her to cope with the loss.
Shin’s Tricycle
The true story of a Japanese man whose children’s lives were tragically cut short by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.