The Boy in the Garden
There was a story that Mama read to Jiro:Once, in old Japan, a young woodcutter livedalone in a little cottage. One winter day hefound a crane struggling in a snare and set itfree.When Jiro looks out the window into Mr. Ozu’sgarden, he sees a crane and remembersthat story.Much like the crane, the...
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There was a story that Mama read to Jiro:Once, in old Japan, a young woodcutter livedalone in a little cottage. One winter day hefound a crane struggling in a snare and set itfree.When Jiro looks out the window into Mr. Ozu’sgarden, he sees a crane and remembersthat story.Much like the crane, the legend comes tolife—and, suddenly, Jiro finds himself in aworld woven between dream and reality.Which is which?Allen Say creates a tale about many thingsat once: the power of story, the allure ofthe imagined, and the gossamer line betweentruth and fantasy. For who among us hasn’timagined ourselves in our own favoritefairy tale?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780547214108 (0547214103)
Publish date: October 18th 2010
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Literature,
Cultural,
Family,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Picture Books,
Animals,
Japan,
Folklore,
Birds
Beautiful illustrations and writing to tell the tale of a boy's adventure's through a man's garden and finding a statue of a crane.
The Boy in the Garden is really two stories. One is an old folktale about a man who saved a struggling crane from a trap, met and married a young woman who made a beautiful cloth each night and who begged her husband not to look upon her while she worked, and discovered his wife was the crane he sav...
As usual, Say's lovely paintings are stronger than his story, but I did find this story stronger than his norm. I liked the way he combined a myth (the Crane Wife) with a contemporary child's experience of hearing the story -- more original than the standard "retelling" or "modernization" of a fairy...
A legend comes to life for a little boy. A gentle, quiet tale.
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