TottoChan
The Little Girl at the Window
by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Should I read this?
Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Biography, Best Biographies, and Fiction.
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars for classrooms, and it was run by an extraordinary manits founder and headmaster, Sosaku Kobayashiwho was a firm believer in freedom of expression a...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Biography, Best Biographies, and Fiction.
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“Has sold something like 5 million copies in Japan alone (an insane number). TottoChan is a special figure in modern Japanese culture?she is a celebrity on par with Oprah or Ellen. | Has sold something like 5 million copies in Japan alone (an insane number). TottoChan is a special figure in modern Japanese culture—she is a celebrity on par with Oprah or Ellen.”
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