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Sixteen mythical monsters and spirits from Japanese folklore take children on fantastical adventures in this first-ever children's storybook about yokai. Young readers will meet baku the dream eater, mischievous kappa sprites, a ghost child who lives in a hotel, and many more. Yokai have a rich history dating back centuries in Japan, and today, they can be found in monstercatching video games and animated films. Yokai Stories is the first book to weave Japan's monster mythology into English-language stories for children. Each tale is accompanied by a haunting, modern portrait of the yokai by Swiss artist Eleonora D'Onofrio.
Sixteen mythical monsters and spirits from Japanese folklore take children on fantastical adventures in this first-ever children's storybook about yokai. Young readers will meet baku the dream eater, mischievous kappa sprites, a ghost child who lives in a hotel, and many more. Yokai have a rich history dating back centuries in Japan, and today, they can be found in monstercatching video games and animated films. Yokai Stories is the first book to weave Japan's monster mythology into English-language stories for children. Each tale is accompanied by a haunting, modern portrait of the yokai by Swiss artist Eleonora D'Onofrio.
Zack Davisson is an award-winning translator, writer, and scholar of Japanese folklore and ghosts. He is the author of Yurei: The Japanese Ghost from Chin Music Press. He is the translator of Eisner Award-winning and Harvey-nominated Shigeru Mizuki’s Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan, and a 2014 nominee of the Japanese-US Friendship Commission Translation Prize. Other translation works include the famous folklore comic Kitaro (Drawn and Quarterly) and the works of Satoshi Kon (Dark Horse). He was a researcher and on-screen talent for National Geographic’s TV special Japan: Lost Souls of Okinawa and maintains [...], a popular Japanese folklore website.
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| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
| Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Kinder & Jugend |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Gebunden |
| ISBN-13: | 9781634059145 |
| ISBN-10: | 163405914X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Davisson, Zack |
| Illustrator: | D'Onofrio, Eleonora |
| Hersteller: | Chin Music Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 208 x 169 x 15 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Zack Davisson |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.12.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,27 kg |
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