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Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Japanese book
For the film, see Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window (film).
Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window (Japanese: 窓ぎわのトットちゃん, Hepburn: Madogiwa no Totto-chan) is an autobiographical memoir written by Japanese television personality and UNICEFGoodwill AmbassadorTetsuko Kuroyanagi. The book was published in 1981, and became an "instant bestseller" in Japan.[1] The book is about the values of the unconventional education that Kuroyanagi received during World War II at Tomoe Gakuen, a Tokyoelementary school founded by educator Sosaku Kobayashi.[1][2]
The Japanese name of the book is an expression used to describe people whom society considers to be failures.[3]
Background
[edit]After hearing about how children were refusing to attend school, Tetsuko decided to write about her experience attending Tomoe Gakuen.[4]Totto-chan was originally published in Japan as a series of articles in Kodansha's Young Woman magazine appearing from February 1979 through December 1980. The articles were then collected into a book, which made Japanese publishing history by selling more than 5 million before the end of 1982, which made the book break all previous publish
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Description for Totto ChanPaperback. Illustrator(s): Iwasaki, Chichiro. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 113 x 10. Weight in Grams: 190.
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 man-its founder and headmaster, Sosaku Kobayashi-who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity. In real life, the Totto-chan of the book has become one of Japan's most popular television personalities-Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. She attributes her success in life to this wonderful school and
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About Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
TETSUKO KUROYANAGI, daughter of the celebrated violinist, was voted Japan's most popular television personality fourteen times. She studied to become an opera singer but then became an actress instead, winning a prestigious award for h