Words to make a friend a story in Japanese and English
"When a young Japanese girl moves into her new house, she is happy to see a girl her age playing in the snow just outside her window. The only problem is the Japanese girl doesn't speak English and the American girl doesn't speak Japanese. But each girl's love of the snow teaches...
| Main Author: | Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948- (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Stoop, Naoko. (Illustrator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Japanese |
| Published: |
New York :
Random House Studio,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
"When a young Japanese girl moves into her new house, she is happy to see a girl her age playing in the snow just outside her window. The only problem is the Japanese girl doesn't speak English and the American girl doesn't speak Japanese. But each girl's love of the snow teaches them that they don't need to speak the same language to have fun!"-- |
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| Physical Description: |
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780593122273 0593122275 9780593122280 0593122283 |
| Author Notes: |
In the area of linguistics, she has authored five books, co-authored six books, edited one book, and co-edited five books. She is also a published poet and co-editor of four volumes of poetry. Her first middle grade novel, Soccer Shock, was published in 1991. Her other novels include the Zel, Beast, The Wager, Lights on the Nile, Skin, Storm, Hidden, and Dark Shimmer. She is also the author of several picture books including Flamingo Dream, The Wishing Club: A Story About Fractions, Corkscrew Counts: A Story About Multiplication, The Crossing, A Single Pearl, and Hands and Hearts. She has received several awards including the New Jersey Reading Association's M. Jerry Weiss Book Award for The Prince of the Pond and the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water. (Bowker Author Biography) |