japanese language materials

A collection of poems for children written by Japanese poet Michio Mado; includes the original Japanese version and the English translation.

A young Japanese boy, worried that his grandfather is lonely, accompanies him to the public bath.

Illustrations and text teach the reader to read, write, and pronounce over a hundred words in Japanese.

While she and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Center during World War II, Mari gradually adjusts as she enrolls in an art class, makes a friend, plants sunflowers and waits for them to grow.

Illustrations and simple text written in both English and Japanese that describes how a little girl, Ellie, is able to cope with bullying.

A Japanese brother and sister take a train from the farm where they live into the city to go to their first circus, where they delight in the jugglers, the trapeze artists, and the big white elephant.

Presents 1,000 common Japanese words, each accompanied by a small, labeled picture and the Japanese syllabic signs.

Translates the Japanese folktale about a young fisherman who finds he has been in the Kingdom Beneath the Sea for, not three years, but three hundred. Provides the Japanese text along with the English translation, and features Shiro Kasamatsu's classic illustrations.

A retelling of the Japanese story in which an old bamboo cutter finds a child in a bamboo stalk, raises her, and is surprised to find that her destiny lies far, far away.

Momotaro, a boy born from a peach, travels to the Land of the Demons, joined by his faithful companions, the Dog, The Monkey, and the Pheasant.