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What makes this book [...] valuable is that it brings together two worlds: Miyazawa's texts and their Japanese illustrations, enabling a better understanding of the original cultural context of his works. Kilpatrick's background in sociolinguistics, English literature, and Japanese language, as well as her long-term scholarly involvement with Miyazawa's texts, have resulted in a unique study offering a broader perspective on these canonical Japanese stories for children. Another tremendous asset of this book is that it provides an abundance of illustrations printed on high quality paper, which gives readers the opportunity to appreciate fully the variety of styles and the mastery of the art accompanying Miyazawa's texts. ... Kilpatrick's valuable insights into the ethics and cosmology of Miyazawa's universe and the array of astounding illustrations featured in the book make it not only an outstanding source of information, but also a pleasurable reading experience. Katarzyna Wasylak, Independent scholar, Poland, in: International Research in Children's Literature 2018, vol. 11, issue 1, pp. 106-108.

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Helen Kilpatrick, Ph.D. (2004), is a lecturer in Japanese at the University of Wollongong (Australia). She has recently published on constructions of transculturalism and visual representations of the shôjo (girl) in Japanese fiction.

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