The Water of Possibility

by Hiromi Goto and Cleo Qian

One day Sayuri and her little brother Keiji explore the dark root cellar and are transported from Ganola AB to Middle World, a woodland full of figures from Japanese folklore. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550501836
• ISBN13: 9781550501834
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Coteau Books
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Excellent Japanese-Canadian Fantasy!

When twelve-year-old Sayuri Kato and her little brother Keiji enter the root cellar in their new home, they find themselves transported to Living Earth, a magical world in which humans are the storybook creatures, and kappas, shape-shifting foxes, onis, and tanukis are creatures of reality. When Keiji is lost, Sayuri must journey through this myth-inhabited land, and accompanied by her new friends Echo and Machigai she learns important lessons along the way about philosophical and moral balance. The arch-villain of the story is Great Uncle Mischief the fox, who calls himself the Patriarch. He has devoted himself to the acquisition of power, destroying Living Earth and its inhabitants in the process. He is not evil, in an absolute sense, although his actions most certainly are. The strong feminist and ecological themes of this fantasy are worked seemlessly into the excellent writing and storytelling. One of the strongest entries in Coteau's "In the Same Boat" multi-cultural series.