kimonos

Katie's friends have come for a sleepover, and telling a scary story seems like a good idea--until she has a dream about a monster under her bed, and she wakes up to find her lucky kimono missing.

A little girl declares that on the first day of school she will wear the kimono that her grandmother brought her during her visit from Japan, no matter what anyone says.

Katie's friends have come for a sleepover, and telling a scary story seems like a good idea--until she has a dream about a monster under her bed, and she wakes up to find her lucky kimono missing.

Inspired by traditional Japanese dolls, this story introduces readers to the Kokeshis' kimonos and hair-dos as well as Japanese culture. Contains die-cut pages, flaps and gatefolds.

Katie's friends have come for a sleepover, and telling a scary story seems like a good idea--until she has a dream about a monster under her bed, and she wakes up to find her lucky kimono missing.

Rei Shimura, a twenty-eight-year-old, California-born antiques dealer living in Japan, is pleasantly surprised when she is asked to transport several valuable nineteenth-century kimonos to an American museum and lecture on them, but the trip goes awry when a kimono goes missing and Rei's passport turns up on a dead body in a dumpster.

Features photographs, illustrations, patterns, and descriptions of kimonos; and also details the proper ways to wear a kimono, how to tie the obis, and other related topics.