So Far from the Bamboo Grove
Title | So Far from the Bamboo Grove PDF eBook |
Author | Yoko Kawashima Watkins |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2014-06-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 006234711X |
In the final days of World War II, Koreans were determined to take back control of their country from the Japanese and end the suffering caused by the Japanese occupation. As an eleven-year-old girl living with her Japanese family in northern Korea, Yoko is suddenly fleeing for her life with her mother and older sister, Ko, trying to escape to Japan, a country Yoko hardly knows. Their journey is terrifying—and remarkable. It's a true story of courage and survival that highlights the plight of individual people in wartime. In the midst of suffering, acts of kindness, as exemplified by a family of Koreans who risk their own lives to help Yoko's brother, are inspiring reminders of the strength and resilience of the human spirit.
The Bamboo Grove
Title | The Bamboo Grove PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rutt |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780472085583 |
A collection of short, introspective poems known as sijo--a form unique to Korea. They are skillfully translated by Korean scholar, Richard Rutt
My Brother, My Sister, and I
Title | My Brother, My Sister, and I PDF eBook |
Author | Yoko Kawashima Watkins |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2008-06-23 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1439107874 |
The author of the critically acclaimed SO FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE continues her autobiography, describing the hardships, poverty, tragedies, and struggles of life for her and her two older siblings, living as refugees in post-World War II Japan.
In a Grove (竹林中)
Title | In a Grove (竹林中) PDF eBook |
Author | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa |
Publisher | Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd. |
Total Pages | 153 |
Release | 2011-10-15 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN |
Panda Baby
Title | Panda Baby PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Toast |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 24 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780785314882 |
Follows a baby panda from his birth through his first few months of exploring his surroundings.
Farming Bamboo
Title | Farming Bamboo PDF eBook |
Author | Daphne Lewis |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2007-11-08 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1435701313 |
"Farming Bamboo" tells farmers and gardeners in the Pacific Northwest what they need to know to raise bamboo as a farm crop. The bamboo is farmed in order to sell bamboo shoots for food and poles for wood. The botany of bamboo is described for a background to making decisions about caring for the bamboo. An encyclopedia describes 27 species of the genus Phyllostachys.
Japanese Fairy Tales
Title | Japanese Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Yei Theodora Ozaki |
Publisher | BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Total Pages | 190 |
Release | 2023-07-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore. Grateful acknowledgment is due to Mr. Y. Yasuoka, Miss Fusa Okamoto, my brother Nobumori Ozaki, Dr. Yoshihiro Takaki, and Miss Kameko Yamao, who have helped me with translations. The story which I have named “The Story of the Man who did not Wish to Die” is taken from a little book written a hundred years ago by one Shinsui Tamenaga. It is named Chosei Furo, or “Longevity.” “The Bamboo-cutter and the Moon-child” is taken from the classic “Taketari Monogatari,” and is NOT classed by the Japanese among their fairy tales, though it really belongs to this class of literature. The pictures were drawn by Mr. Kakuzo Fujiyama, a Tokio artist. In telling these stories in English I have followed my fancy in adding such touches of local color or description as they seemed to need or as pleased me, and in one or two instances I have gathered in an incident from another version. At all times, among my friends, both young and old, English or American, I have always found eager listeners to the beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan, and in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West...FROM THE BOOKS.