Girl from the Snow Country (English and Japanese Edition) - Hardcover

Hidaka, Masako

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9780916291068: Girl from the Snow Country (English and Japanese Edition)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0916291065 ISBN 13: 9780916291068

Publisher: Kane Miller Book Pub, 1986

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A little Japanese girl enjoys the falling snow as she makes snow bunnies and walks across the snowy fields with her mother to the village market.

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Text: English, Japanese (translation)

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 3 In the mountain village where Mi-chan lives with her mother, snow falls heavily. Mother and daughter tramp across the fields to market, where a kind flower-seller gives the little girl a branch of red berriesjust the thing for putting eyes on the ``snow-bunnies'' Mi-chan has made by sticking green-leaf ears into rounded clumps of snow. There are occasional visual inconsistencies in the otherwise attractive watercolors: children may wonder why the heavy winter snow that has fallen on camellia blossoms has not damaged them, and a tree described in the text as ``bare'' is covered with pink buds. The market women are wonderfully garbed and shaped, yet Mi-chan's mother in her heavy cloak has little definition except as a brown blob. The story is the sort that appeals to listeners of age three or four: an excursion with mother, a gift, and the wonderfully imaginative creation, artfully illustrated, of ``snow bunnies.'' Somewhat less successful than the illustrations, the text is so colloquial that it occasionally seems out of tune with the very Japanese illustrations, a fault perhaps of the translation rather than the original. Mi-chan, for example, tells the flower-seller, ``At home I made these snow bunnies,'' and when the berries are offered, the flower-seller says, ``Since you're so sweet, you can have them for free.'' Still, the simple story will please many children, and it is a pleasure to find an accessible story reflecting another culture. Dudley B. Carlson, Princeton Public Library, N.J.
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