The girl who loved caterpillars a twelfth-century tale from Japan
In this retelling of an anonymous twelfth-century Japanese story, the young woman Izumi resists social and family pressures as she befriends caterpillars and other socially unacceptable creatures.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Philomel Books,
c1992.
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| Series: | Tsutsumi Chūnagon monogatari. |
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| Summary: | In this retelling of an anonymous twelfth-century Japanese story, the young woman Izumi resists social and family pressures as she befriends caterpillars and other socially unacceptable creatures. |
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| Item Description: | Adaptation of an anonymous story in the Tsutsumi Chūnagon monogatari. |
| Physical Description: | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0399218718 : |
| Author Notes: | Her first book, Henry the Hand-Painted Mouse, was published in 1951. In 1952 she received a Fulbright Fellowship to study folklore at the University of Madras in India. She later based several of her books on Asian folk stories including Shan's Lucky Knife, The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars, and The Superlative Horse, which won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Her other books include A Song for Gar, Blue's Broken Heart, and The Pushcart War, which won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. She also wrote a dozen scripts for animated television adaptations of her work. The Toothpaste Millionaire was adapted for television in 1974. She died from cancer on August 2, 2012 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) |
