Mighty Mountain, a young sumo wrestler who wants to become the strongest man in Japan and win the Emperor's grand match, is trained for success by Kuniko, her mother, and her grandmother.
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From Publishers Weekly
Considering its rather circuitous route, this picture book about Japanese sumo wrestlers (originally published in Denmark and now translated into English) holds up fairly well. The theme of strong women--here, three generations of a Japanese family--overpowering a supposedly Herculean man (Mighty Mountain, a big brute and sumo aspirant) is somewhat heavy-handed; though commendable for its concerns with women's equality (in this case, actually, women's dominance). On his way to the emperor's wrestling match, Mighty Mountain meets gentle-seeming Kuniko, who literally drags him home to meet the family. Mother appears, carrying the family cow on her shoulders (she "gets sore feet, if I let her walk on the stony paths"); Grandma uproots an enormous tree because she has stumbled over it once too often. The three women agree that the "poor weak man" needs taking in hand, and they turn him into the Oriental Hulk Hogan. The characters have a certain charm, the Japanese costumes are colorfully authentic and the overall mood is quietly amusing. Ages 6-12.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
The second version of this traditional Japanese folktale to be published in 1990 ( Stamm's Three Strong Women : A Tall Tale of Japan , Viking) . This text is briefer and lacks the elaborative details that add liveliness to the Stamm version. Hedlund's illustrations, with dark outlines around the figures, flat dulled colors, stylized landscapes, and a sense of compressed space, seem loosely patterned on Japanese woodcuts, although traditional woodcuts have a more fluid, delicate line. The figures often seem frozen in a pose rather than caught in the act of moving. Mighty Mountain, with his overly large feet and hands and exaggerated pouting grimace, would be right at home in contemporary Japanese cartoons. The layout reinforces this comic-book style with frequent inserts of additional scenes framed and set into a larger two-page picture. The illustrations as a whole are both more fierce and more cartoonlike than the other version. The Tsengs ' deft watercolors for Stamm's offering have wider, more immediate appeal with their sense of whimsy that perfectly captures the humor of Three Strong Women.
-Karen James, Louisville Free Pub . Lib . , KY
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-Karen James, Louisville Free Pub . Lib . , KY
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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