Details

Subject(s)

• Kamishibai—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Street theater—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Storytelling—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Japan—Juvenile fiction [Browse]

Summary note

After many years of retirement, an old Kamishibai man--a Japanese street performer who tells stories and sells candies--decides to make his rounds once more even though such entertainment declined after the advent of television.

Notes

• "Walter Lorraine books."
• Cotsen copies 1 and 2: Uncorrected proof. With letter from publisher and publicity material from publisher laid-in.
• Cotsen copies 3: Inscribed with doodle of man drawing by Allen Say on front free e.p.: "To all the children at the Cotsen Library. Allan Say 10-29-05"

Binding note

Pub. quarter green cloth and blind stamped green bds, green e.p., and col. printed pict. silver d.j.

ISBN

• 9780618479542
• 0618479546 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN

2005006319

OCLC

58456476