The Funny Little Woman (Picture Puffins)
While chasing a dumpling, a little lady is captured by wicked creatures from whom she escapes with the means of becoming the richest woman in Japan.
While chasing a dumpling, a little lady is captured by wicked creatures from whom she escapes with the means of becoming the richest woman in Japan.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140547535 (0140547533)
ASIN: 0140547533
Publish date: 1993-02-14
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
The cover simply says retold by Mosel, but it doesn't specify what tale is being retold. According to Wikipedia it's based on The Woman Who Lost Her Dumplings as originally collected by Lafcadio Hearn. I haven't read this tale, but I have read some of Hearn's other collected stories and enjoyed them...
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Genre: Drama / Adventure / Folktale Year Published: 1972 Year Read: 2013 I have been reading many folktales from Japan for many years now, but if there was one Japanese folktale that I was pleasantly surprised in liking, it would be “The Funny Little Woman,” retold by Arlene Mosel...
★★★★★The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel What a silly story about a little woman, laughing her way to getting captured by, the big bad ONI, all for a dumpling.
★★★★★The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel What a silly story about a little woman, laughing her way to getting captured by, the big bad ONI, all for a dumpling.
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