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Buying Mittens

Nankichi, NiimiKuroi, Ken(Illustrated by)Huffman, Judith Carol(Translated by)
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When a cold winter comes to the forest, a little fox awakens one morning to the magic of a first snowfall.

His romp in the snow is cut short, however, when his cold, wet paws turn peony colored.

What he needs, his mother decides, are some woolen mittens the size of his little paws. So begins an overnight journey into a village where humans live to buy a pair of mittens and where, along the way, the little fox learns that people are more complicated creatures than he thought. Buying Mittens is a classic story that has charmed Japanese children for generations.

Written by one of Japan's most beloved authors, it has the timeless quality of a folktale that will speak across cultures.

Enchanting illustrations illuminate this gentle tale of a mother's tenderness and a child's new discoveries.

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University of Hawai'i Press
0824821297 / 9780824821296
Hardback
895.63
01/09/1999
United States
40 pages, colour illustrations
445 grams