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The story is set in old Japan. It is about is a funny little old woman. She likes to laugh ("Tee-he-he-he") and makes dumplings out of rice. One day, one of her dumplings rolls down a hole. The little old woman chases the lost dumpling and ends up in a strange place underground, lined with Jizo (guardian statues).
Me Talk Pretty One Day, published in 2000, is a bestselling collection of essays by American humorist David Sedaris.The book is separated into two parts. The first part consists of essays about Sedaris’s life before his move to Normandy, France, including his upbringing in suburban Raleigh, North Carolina, his time working odd jobs in New York City, and a visit to New York from a childhood ...
Inspiration. Bates's Uncle Silas figure, and many of the lineaments of his character, were based on a real person named Joseph Betts, the husband of H. E. Bates's maternal grandmother's sister Mary Ann. Betts lived in a village in the Ouse Valley, was born in the early 1840s, and lived to the early 1930s.
The Magic Finger. The Magic Finger is a 1966 children's story by British author Roald Dahl. [3] [4] First published in the United States by Harper & Row with illustrations by William Pène du Bois, [1] [5] Allen & Unwin published the first U.K. edition in 1968. [2] Later editions have been illustrated by Pat Marriott, Tony Ross, and Quentin ...
Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Sideways Stories from Wayside School is a 1978 children's short story cycle novel by American author Louis Sachar, and the first book in the Wayside School series. The novel was later adapted into a Teletoon animated series, Wayside .
Min Fynske Barndom. Min Fynske Barndom, translated into English as My Childhood, is Carl Nielsen 's autobiographical account of his childhood on the Danish island of Funen. Published in 1927, it was the basis of the Erik Clausen's film of the same name in 1994, translated into English as My Childhood Symphony .
PZ7.B954 Mi. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel ( ISBN 0-590-75803-9) is a children's book by Virginia Lee Burton. First published in 1939, it features Mike Mulligan, who is the owner of Steam Shovels, Inc., and his steam shovel Mary Anne. It is considered a classic favorite of children's literature: based on a 2007 online poll, the National ...