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Publication
HMH Books for Young Readers (2010), Edition: Reprint, 32 pages
Description
After Jiro encounters a life-like garden statue of a tall bird, he falls asleep and dreams of the story his mother once told him about a grateful crane.
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LibraryThing member Whisper1
This is two tales interwoven balanced with lovely illustrations.
Folk like, there is a tale of a grateful crane who was rescued from a snare by a caring man. Later, a beautiful woman knocks on his cottage door and they marry..
To save them from poverty, the lovely woman weaves beautiful cloth,
Breaking his promise, he came into the room and watched, and found a crane at work.
When the crane was transformed back to the lovely woman, the wife tells the husband, because of his broken promise, she must now be a crane and can no longer be a woman.
Story #2 is dreamlike. Mr. Ozu and son visit a friend. Wandering away from the adults the young boy discovers a crane. As he approached, he was told it was only a statue.
A short time later, the boy discovers a tiny cottage and inside is a lovely woman who offers hospitality. She makes the request that the young man cannot enter a room while she is weaving.
The boy awakes from his dreamlike trance to hear his father's voice telling him it is time to go home.
Folk like, there is a tale of a grateful crane who was rescued from a snare by a caring man. Later, a beautiful woman knocks on his cottage door and they marry..
To save them from poverty, the lovely woman weaves beautiful cloth,
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telling the husband each time that he can not peek in the room while she is weaving.Breaking his promise, he came into the room and watched, and found a crane at work.
When the crane was transformed back to the lovely woman, the wife tells the husband, because of his broken promise, she must now be a crane and can no longer be a woman.
Story #2 is dreamlike. Mr. Ozu and son visit a friend. Wandering away from the adults the young boy discovers a crane. As he approached, he was told it was only a statue.
A short time later, the boy discovers a tiny cottage and inside is a lovely woman who offers hospitality. She makes the request that the young man cannot enter a room while she is weaving.
The boy awakes from his dreamlike trance to hear his father's voice telling him it is time to go home.
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LibraryThing member pgreenley
Beautiful illustrations show a boy interacting with a traditional story. I think this book does a good job of showing a child relating to a traditional and adult oriented story. By putting the boy in the middle of the Crane Woman story the book connects children more with the details of the story.
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The illustrations also show examples of beautiful Japanese gardens adding an opportunity for learning about culture to the book. Show Less
LibraryThing member JHamm
Japanese tale about a fantasy world a boy makes up. A great book for young readers with illustration of pictures. Very imaginative book and good for young readers.
LibraryThing member debnance
The Boy in the Garden is really two stories. One is an old folktale about a man who saved a struggling crane from a trap, met and married a young woman who made a beautiful cloth each night and who begged her husband not to look upon her while she worked, and discovered his wife was the crane he
As always with Say stories, the illustrations are beautiful and the text has an exotic flavor.
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saved one night when he could not resist peeking at her while she worked. The second story is a tale of a boy and his father who go to visit a friend. The boy sees a statue of a crane and then goes inside a small cottage at the edge of the property. Soon a woman visits him. The boy believes the woman is the crane woman. The ending makes you think the boy could have been dreaming.As always with Say stories, the illustrations are beautiful and the text has an exotic flavor.
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LibraryThing member Sullywriter
A legend comes to life for a little boy. A gentle, quiet tale.
LibraryThing member jrudnick
This book would be a good book to introduce multicultural studies for Asian American culture. This book is fun because kids would want to imagine themselves in other stories and that's what the boy does. The best ages would be 2-5 and could segue into talking about dreams and having the students
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LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
Visiting the home of famed gardener Mr. Ozu at the near year, young Jiro, who had always loved the traditional Japanese tale of The Grateful Crane (also sometimes known as The Crane Wife), is attracted to a crane he sees standing in the grounds. Embarrassed when he is observed by Mr. Ozu and his
As someone who loved folk and fairy-tales as a girl, and often imagined myself into the world of whatever story I was reading, I enjoyed The Boy In the Garden immensely. It offers a tribute to the power of childhood imagination, which makes anything seem possible, and through which the everyday world is remade in fantastic ways. I appreciated the juxtaposition of modern and traditional Japanese life shown here, as well as the inclusion of the original folktale that inspired Jiro's adventures at the beginning of the book. As always with Allen Say's books, the artwork was simply beautiful, with excellent use of color and light to create paintings that draw the reader into their world. Recommended to young folk and fairy-tale enthusiasts, and to anyone looking for stories about children and their imaginative world.
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father creeping up on the bird, which turns out to be a statue, rather than a living creature, Jiro runs off, eventually finding his way to a seemingly deserted cottage. Here he meets a beautiful woman who seems like she might be the transformed crane of his favorite story. Has Jiro entered the world of folklore, or is there another explanation...?As someone who loved folk and fairy-tales as a girl, and often imagined myself into the world of whatever story I was reading, I enjoyed The Boy In the Garden immensely. It offers a tribute to the power of childhood imagination, which makes anything seem possible, and through which the everyday world is remade in fantastic ways. I appreciated the juxtaposition of modern and traditional Japanese life shown here, as well as the inclusion of the original folktale that inspired Jiro's adventures at the beginning of the book. As always with Allen Say's books, the artwork was simply beautiful, with excellent use of color and light to create paintings that draw the reader into their world. Recommended to young folk and fairy-tale enthusiasts, and to anyone looking for stories about children and their imaginative world.
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LibraryThing member raizel
While his father visits with Mr. Ozu, Jiro sees a lifelike statue of a crane in Mr. Ozu's famous garden and imagines he is living the story of "The Grateful Crane," which his mother told him and which is included as the first page of the book.
Lovely, serious illustrations.
Lovely, serious illustrations.
Awards
Parents' Choice Book Award (2010)
The Best Children's Books of the Year (Five to Nine — 2011)
Pages
32
ISBN
0547214103 / 9780547214108
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