- Schools, Juvenile fiction, Teasing, Loneliness
A story of a strange, shy, small boy who is isolated by his differences from other children in a Japanese village school.
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Earnest, classical in form, intimate and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Tarō Yashima
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 37
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Lectorum Publications, Viking Press
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780140501728
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“On the first day of our village school in Japan, there was a boy missing.”
Taro Yashima (八島 太郎, Yashima Tarō, born Atsushi Iwamatsu (岩松 淳, Iwamatsu Atsushi); September 21, 1908 — June 30, 1994) was a Japanese-American artist and children's book author. He immigrated to the United States in 1939 and assisted the U.S. war effort. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taro_Yashima)
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