ISBN: 0-88739-016-1
160 pp.
Size: 5 x 8
Paperback Original
Price: $8.95
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Magic Listening Cap, The
Yoshiko Uchida
The Magic Listening Cap is Yoshiko Uchida’s second collection of folk tales and maintains the humor and wisdom established in The Dancing Kettle. These fourteen tales carry us to a different land, a different people, and a different kind of magic. In the adventures set forth Ms. Uchida gives the reader a keen sense of the Japanese countryside. “The Wrestling Match of the Two Buddhas,” “The Man who Bought a Dream,” “The Golden Axe,” “The Fox and the Bear,” and “The Magic Listening Cap” are a few of the stories that will ring of universal familiarity.
Review: “These tales are pervaded by a recognition of the decency and dignity of simple, average people, and by a sound moral contrast between generosity and greed, wisdom and folly.” New York Herald Tribune
“Yoshiko Uchida tells these stories with an appealing simplicity and illustrates them with wonderful vivid black and white brush drawings. This is a definite addition to any storyteller’s collection.” San Francisco Chronicle
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