Treasury of Japanese Folktales: Bilingual English and Japanese Edition

by Yuri Yasuda, Yoshinobu Sakakura (Illustrator), Yumi Matsunari (Translator)

Learn Japanese and enjoy folktales at the same time with this whimsically illustrated multicultural children's book! This bilingual edition of A Treasury of Japanese Folktales--presented in both English and Japanese--contains 12 of the best Japanese legends and fairy tales, told to generation after generation of Japanese children. Originally written in English by Yuri Yasuda, based on her interpretations of traditional Japanese tales, these charming stories of rich imagination are now accompanied by Japanese text by Yumi Matsunari and Yumi Yamaguchi. The Japanese text includes basic kanji accompanied by furigana to help beginning learners to recognize and learn the characters.Adventures carry us, on turtle-back, to the splendors of the underwater palace of the dragon princess, to the beautiful hills where Kintaro plays with his animal friends, and to a temple where we discover a "tea kettle" that is really a cunning badger in disguise.The 98 color illustrations, executed with great skill and imagination, bring to life the charming characters of these heart-warming tales of old Japan, which Suzume, the Tongue-Cut SparrowKintaro, the Strong BoyKaguya Hime, the Luminous PrincessMomotaro, the Peach BoyBunbuku Chagama, the Lucky Cauldron

215 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 7, 2014

Reviews

[Jimmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book contains 12 Japanese folktales which children will find nowhere else. Expertly translated from their original form, to bring the Japanese art of storytelling to an English audience. This edition comes with the stories in both Japanese and English, so children can even pick up parts of a new language when exploring this book.

I love that this is a bilingual book, because it will expose children to a culture they more than likely have not experienced yet. It will help broaden their minds to other cultures, and start appreciating the wondrous ideas that have come from around the world. This is a book that I can learn as much as the children.

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