The Rolling Rice Ball

Author: Yoda, Junichi (Author) Tresselt, Alvin (Adapter)
Illustrator: Watanabe, Saburo
Language/s: English
A retelling of one of the oldest Japanese folktales about a kind old woodcutter who falls into a mousehole and discovers singing mice making rice cakes. He returns home to his wife richly rewarded. Their greedy neighbours try their luck with a very different ending.
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Publisher: Parents’ Magazine Press; 1st edition (US)
Year: 1969
ISBN: 9780819303004