Lily and the Wooden Bowl

by Alan Schroeder

Book Overview

Long ago in Japan, Lily promises her dying grandmother that she will never remove the lacquered bowl the old woman placed on her head to protect her from those who would take advantage of her beauty.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440412943
• ISBN13: 9780440412946
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.1" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5

Customer Reviews

Touch the Jpanese girl's original heartstrings !

This story tells you how typicall old time Japanese girl's psychology worked. Nowadays ( especially after WWII ) Japanese ladies are not so coward than those in old age. Maybe some of you who know Japanese women living in U.S. will be astonished and regard this story as nonsence, but we have to know its original figure through this story..... It tells you one of its real origin and you'll be able to see in rural Japan even today.