Cool Melons-Turn to Frogs!: The Life and Poems of Issa
Born in 1763 on a farm in central Japan, Issa began writing haiku as a young child. Matthew Gollub has integrated the story of Issa's life and selections of his best-known work with Kazuko Stone's visual interpretations in the form of whimsical watercolors. Full color.
Born in 1763 on a farm in central Japan, Issa began writing haiku as a young child. Matthew Gollub has integrated the story of Issa's life and selections of his best-known work with Kazuko Stone's visual interpretations in the form of whimsical watercolors. Full color.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781584302414 (1584302410)
Publish date: August 1st 2004
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
story and haiku translations by Matthew Gollub, illustrations by Kazuko G Stone I don't like the cover. The book itself is more serious* and beautiful than the cover implies. *Not boring, just less cartoony. For some reason, that jumping frog really bothers me.
I am trying to review more of the kids book I read, and this is one that that's been bugging me forever. Haiku make me insane, totally insane, because I love them and they are impossible and crazy. My soul dies a little every single time someone says to me, "I don't get poetry." People say this a lo...
Beautifully written and illustrated book about the popular Japanese Haiku poet Kobayashi Yataro, better known as Issa. The biographical information is complemented by several of his haiku. Within the text is an English translation; the Japanese calligraphy is painted along the side margins. Readers ...
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