Click-Clack Mountain

by Ralph F. McCarthy (retold by), Kokkan Odake (Illustrator), Kokkan Otake (Illustrator)

A thieving badger meets a dreadful fate for his mistreatment of a farmer and his wife

47 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

RALPH F. McCARTHY is a writer, lyricist, and translator from Michigan and California. Among his translations are another collection of stories by Osamu Dazai, Self Portraits, and 69 by Ryu Murakami.

Reviews

[Wild-Rogue-Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

Remember this from my childhood, when I grew up in Japan on a Naval base. Loved the illustrations and the pacing of its verse.
It was like a reaffirmation of that Bible study lesson,"Do unto to others, as you would have done unto you."

Or as people younger than me say now,"Karma, bites back hard."

[Taylor Riley · Rating 2 out of 5]

The pictures were great, the kids liked the story, but it felt like it was saying that revenge was ok.