My Japan - Hardcover

Watanabe, Etsuko

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1933605995 ISBN 13: 9781933605999

Publisher: Kane Miller Book Pub, 2009

Synopsis

Come discover Japan. Yuko will introduce us to her family, her home, and her city. We ll learn what she does in school, how she celebrates holidays, and lots more.
From a typical bedroom and bathroom (two different kinds of toilets!) to a typical day in school (the students are responsible for cleaning it!), these snapshots of Japan are informative and interesting, presenting the questions and answers about the topics kids are curious about. Writing, Japanese holidays and customs, transportation, and festivals...it s all here.

About this title

About the Author:

Etsuko Watanabe was born and raised in Tokyo and studied art in Japan and France. She is the illustrator of several books published in France and has also illustrated children's magazines.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 2—Yumi introduces readers to her country via this informational picture book. She starts with her bedroom, detailing her desk, lamp, bed (futon), closet, and school bag, and then takes readers through her kitchen, explaining what she and her family eat, and the bathroom. Small illustrations of the featured items face a full-page, full-color picture of the room, and children can look for the individual objects in it. Yumi then shows her school and explains how things work there. Transportation, vacation times, and holidays and festivals are also described. There is an illustration of a public bath (which includes cartoonish nude figures from the rear). There are no detailed descriptions of the items. On the topic of food, for example, tiny renderings show dishes such as sushi, sukiyaki, and kare raisu, but there's no explanation of what they consist of or how to pronounce them. There are tidbits that may be interesting, such as the fact that the students all help to clean the school each day, and that they remove their shoes and change into slippers there. There are also samples of Japanese writing, with the hiragana characters included as well. This is an additional purchase, better for browsing than for gaining information.—DeAnn Okamura, San Mateo County Library, CA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Kane Miller Book Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1933605995
• ISBN 13: 9781933605999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48