The Story of Snow White (Kodansha Nihongo Folktales) [Paperback]

Hiroko C. Quackenbush (Author), Yasushi Mori (Illustrator), Yasuji Mori (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN) (April 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 4770017952
• ISBN-13: 978-4770017956
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,776,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Snow White (shirayuki hime) "kana reader", April 6, 2001

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This review is from: The Story of Snow White (Kodansha Nihongo Folktales) (Paperback)

This is a well produced bi-lingual childrens book. It has nice pictures, and japanese in standard vertical, right-to-left columns. The english is a separate set of (plain text) pages, followed by footnotes on japanese grammatical usage, indexed by page.

Generally, I think it was very well done. Now I would like to find a similarly done book, but with words that are more commonly used than "oshiro" (castle) and "kerai" (retainer).

Also, I wish that the page-by-page gramatical notes were mixed in with the normal english translation. But I guess that would spoil the ease of reading the english to a child, so i wont knock off points for that :-)