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Kodansha Bilingual Children's Classics Series

This series provides young readers with an engaging gateway to the world of classic literature, presenting each volume in a bilingual format. It allows children to discover timeless stories while simultaneously and effortlessly practicing a foreign language. This collection is an excellent way to broaden horizons and foster a love for reading and languages from an early age.

The Moon Princess
Kintarō

Recommended Reading Order

  • Kintarō

    • 48 pages
    • 2 hours of reading
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    This legend of Kintaro is one of Japan's most enduring and popular children's stories. Kintaro was raised in a mountain forest by his beautiful young mother, and his gentle nature and prodigious strength win him the love and admiration of all the forest creatures. Eventually recruited by a famous samurai lord, the boy goes on to earn fame and fortune after conquering a band of evil demons.Suiho Yonai's rich, dramatic illustrations have been inseparable from the image of Kintaro in the minds of Japanese children for over fifty years; now Ralph F McCarthy's lilting verse brings this tale to life for English-speaking children everywhere.

    Kintarō

  • The Moon Princess

    • 48 pages
    • 2 hours of reading
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    An old bamboo cutter finds a tiny child in the hollow of a bamboo stalk. Thus begins the beloved story of the Moon Princess, whose unearthly beauty brings her fame and would-be husbands from throughout the land, but whose destiny shines far off in the sky. The delicate color and detail of Kancho Oda's illustrations, painted over half a century ago, create a mood of charm and mystery, admirably accompanied by the lilting verse of writer, translator, and lyricist Ralph F. McCarthy.

    The Moon Princess