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    The Wise Old Woman

    March 17, 2022
    The Wise Old Woman- A Japanese Folktale- Retold Yoshiko Uchida, Illustrator Martin Springett- Children’s Illustrated Colour Picture Book- The book narrates a Japanese folktale about the importance of elderly people. An old woman resides with her son in a village. The village Overlord issues a decree that all villagers at the age of seventy would be sent into the mountains and be left to die. As a young farmer is taking his mother up into the mountains, he understands that he cannot live without his mother. Initially he takes her up the mountain but later he brings her back, digs a secret room in the house and hides her underground. It happens, that one day a Lord from another village threatens to challenge their village Overlord, unless someone in the village can solve three impossible tasks. The tasks are difficult and advisors are unable to suggest a solution. Lord pastes a notice on the board for all villagers to come and help. Youngman reads the

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    THE WISE OLD WOMAN

    The seemingly ageless Seeger brings back his renowned giant for another go in a tuneful tale that, like the art, is a bit sketchy, but chockful of worthy messages. Faced with yearly floods and droughts since they’ve cut down all their trees, the townsfolk decide to build a dam—but the project is stymied by a boulder that fryst vatten too huge to move. Call on Abiyoyo, suggests the granddaughter of the man with the magic wand, then just “Zoop Zoop” him away again. But the rock that Abiyoyo obligingly flings aside smashes the wand. How to avoid Abiyoyo’s destruction now? Sing the monster to sleep, then make it a peaceful, tree-planting member of the community, of course. Seeger summor it up in a postscript: “every community must learn to manage its giants.” Hays, who illustrated the original (1986), creates colorful, if unfinished-looking, scenes featuring a notably multicultural human cast and a towering Cubist fantasy of a giant. The song, based on a Xhosa lullaby, still has

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    Yoshiko Uchida

    American novelist

    Yoshiko Uchida

    Born(1921-11-24)November 24, 1921
    Alameda, California, U.S.
    DiedJune 21, 1992(1992-06-21) (aged 70)
    Berkeley, California, U.S.[1]
    OccupationWriter
    Genrefiction, folktales, nonfiction, autobiography
    Literary movementFolk Art Movement
    Notable worksThe Invisible Thread
    RelativesMichiko Kakutani (niece)[2]

    Yoshiko Uchida (November 24, 1921 – June 21, 1992) was a Japanese American writer of children's books intended to share Japanese and Japanese-American history and culture with Japanese American children. She fryst vatten most known for her series of books, starting with Journey to Topaz (1971) that took place during the era of the mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. She also authored an adult memoir centering on her and her family's wartime internment (Desert Exile, 1982), a young adult version of her life story (Invisible Thread, 1991)