Kamishibai Man
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(1 ratings)32 pages2005Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine BooksISBN 9780618479542
About this book
After many years of retirement, an old Kamishibai man--a Japanese street performer who tells stories and sells candies--decides to make his rounds once more even though such entertainment declined after the advent of television.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books
- Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 32
- ISBN
- 9780618479542
About Unknown Author
Allen Say (born James Allen Koichi Moriwaki Seii in 1937; surname written Seii (清井) in Japanese) is a Japanese-American writer and illustrator. He is best known for Grandfather's Journey, a children's picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again, which won the 1994 Caldecott Medal for illustration. This story is autobiographical and relates to Say's constant moving during his childhood. His work mainly focuses on Japanese and Japanese American characters and their stories, and several works have autobiographical elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Say
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