| Description |
40 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 25 cm |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Children's stories in English, 1900- Texts |
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Picture books |
| Notes |
'Based on the tale "The old woman and her dumpling"/by Lafcadio Hearn" -- T. p. verso |
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Children's stories in English, 1900-. Texts (BNB/PRECIS) |
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Originally published, New York: Dutton, 1972 |
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Winner of the Caldecott Medal, 1973 |
| Audience |
For children |
| Notes |
Caldecott Medal, 1973 |
| Subject |
Children's stories.
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Dumplings -- Juvenile fiction.
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Folklore -- Japan.
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Rice dumplings -- Japan -- Folklore
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Tales -- Japan.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
Old woman and her dumpling. Adaptations
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Lent, Blair.
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| LC no. |
bnb58216046 |
| ISBN |
0582160464 |
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