Saturday, March 16, 2013

My Neighbor Totoro / Hayad Miyazaki / 143 pages / First Book in a Series

Wow! What an experience - reading in the original Japanese right-to-left format!  Satsuki, her sister, Mei, and their father have recently moved to the country.  Their father had always wanted to live in a haunted house...Now he just might have gotten his wish.  The house is infested with Soot Sprites.  Granny, a friendly neighbor, explains just what they are and what they do.  The bathing scene is a bit of a shock!
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  1. LauraPMarch 16, 2013 at 4:38 PM

    I LOVE Totoro!! The movie is super cute; and as far as the bathing scene you have to remember that families bathe together in Japan. Maybe not so much nowadays, but Totoro was written in 1988.

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