How to Fool a Cat: Japanese Folktales for Children - Softcover

Stallings, Fran; Fujita, Hiroko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1624910556 ISBN 13: 9781624910555

Publisher: Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc, 2015

Synopsis

“Charming and captivating, these authentic and little-known Japanese folktales are told clearly and simply, making them easily accessible to young listeners at home or in the classroom. Thoughtful comments and notes from the two tellers provide clear tips for successful telling, along with a very useful glossary. If you tell stories to children, this is a must-purchase book!”

—Sherry Norfolk, Storyteller, Author and Teaching Artist

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“How lucky we are to have even more of Hiroko Fujita’s delightful

children’s folktales from Japan! Fran Stallings has done an

excellent job of framing these for us. Fun tale-sharing for teachers,

librarians, and grandparents.”

—Dr. Margaret Read MacDonald, storyteller and author of The

Boy from the Dragon Palace: A Folktale from Japan

“How lucky we are to have even more of Hiroko Fujita’s delightf ul

children’s folktales from Japan! Fran Stallings has done an

excellent job of framing these for us. Fun tale-sharing for teachers,

librarians, and grandparents.”

—Dr. Margaret Read MacDonald, storyteller and author of The

Boy from the Dragon Palace: A Folktale from Japan

About the Author:

In 2003, HIROKO FUJITA and FRAN STALLINGS received the National

(U.S.) Storytelling Network’s Internati onal StoryBridge ORACLE Award

for their work on both sides of the Pacific. They hope that these books

will make Mrs. Fujita’s stories available to English-speaking story lovers

everywhere.

Hiroko Fujita is a traditional ohanashi obaasan (storytelling

grandma). She spent her childhood in the rural mountain town

of Miharu in Fukushima Prefecture, where she heard hundreds of

ancient folktales from village elders. A graduate of Japan Women’s

University, she worked for over fifty years in early childhood

education. Now she travels throughout Japan, sharing the old tales

and teaching young mothers. She has written nearly three dozen

books in Japanese. She lives in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Fran Stallings, a professional storyteller based in Bartlesville,

Oklahoma, interpreted for Mrs. Fujita’s twelve storytelling tours

of twenty-two American states, Japan and Singapore. Stallings

edited and adapted English translations of Mrs. Fujita’s storytelling

handbook and a collection of forty-seven tales known throughout

Japan. Stallings’ other publications include articles, stories, songs,

and four CDs. Her academic training in biology informs her

environmental work as “EarthTeller.”

About this edition

• Publisher: Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1624910556
• ISBN 13: 9781624910555
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 145