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Japanese Children's Favorite Stories CD Book One: CD Edition (Bk. 1)
Kindergarten-Grade 3--Fifty years after its initial publication,
Sakade's compilation of popular Japanese folktales has been dusted off
and prettied up for this new, third edition. Filled with now-familiar
favorites, such as "Peach Boy" and "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow," along with
lesser-known yet equally delightful tales, such as "Mr. Lucky Straw,"
this enduring collection presents 20 stories to enchant and enlighten
young readers. Several of the tales can easily be compared with
traditional Western counterparts: the main character in "Silly Saburo,"
for example, mirrors the follies of "Lazy Jack." Although a few of these
tales have been made into fully illustrated picture books, this
collection is greater than the sum of its parts. Minor text revisions
have little effect on the stories, for the most part. "The Ogre and the
Cock" has become "The Ogre and the Rooster," a "blue goblin" has been
made over to green, and a formerly dead cat has been resuscitated and
upgraded to merely "smelly." The text remains simple, clear, and
accessible to beginning readers and storytellers alike. The "sparkling
new color illustrations" are simply Kurosaki's original stylized scenes,
repainted in bright dabs of watercolor.
Hardback, 112 pages.
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