Title: The Wise Old Woman Grade 4, Leveled Reader: Harcourt School Publishers Collections
Publisher: Harcourt
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0153143703
ISBN 13: 9780153143700
Binding: paperback
Illustrator: Martin Springett
Condition: Good
Weight: 3 ounces

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Japanese-woodblock-meets-superhero illustration style edge this Japanese folktale with suspense. "`Anyone over seventy is no longer useful,' the lord declared, `and must be taken into the mountains and left to die.'" Defying this harsh proclamation, a farmer keeps his aged mother in hiding for two years. When a nearby ruler threatens to conquer the village unless the local lord can perform three seemingly impossible tasks, only the farmer's mother succeeds in solving the puzzles. From now on, the lord declares, elders ``will be treated with respect and honor, and will share with us the wisdom of their years.'' What's not for a parent to love here? And the clever solutions to the three tasks, plus the familiar visual cues of good-versus-evil, should gratify the younger generation, too. Ages 5-9. (Oct.) Hazel Rochman Uchida retells an old Japanese folktale with quiet intensity. The cruel, young village lord decrees that people over 70 are useless and must be taken to the mountains to die

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