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	Say, Allen. KAMISHIBAI MAN New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2005. IL K-3, RL 1.5 ISBN 0618479546
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Long ago, children in Japan would come running at the sound of the kamishibai man's wooden clappers. They were so happy to see him because they knew he had lots of stories to tell and sweets to sell. But as time went by, more and more children began to stay home to watch television instead of listening to the stories of the kamishibai man. The storyteller knew that time had passed him by and stopped going to the city. Though many years have passed and the storyteller was now very old, he decides to make one more trip to the city and be a kamishibai man one more time. What will he find when he reaches the city?
	SUBJECTS: Kamishibai -- Fiction. Street theater -- Fiction. Storytelling -- Fiction. Japan -- Fiction.

Say, Allen.

KAMISHIBAI MAN
New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
IL K-3, RL 1.5
ISBN 0618479546

Click on the book to read Amazon reviews

Long ago, children in Japan would come running at the sound of the kamishibai man's wooden clappers. They were so happy to see him because they knew he had lots of stories to tell and sweets to sell. But as time went by, more and more children began to stay home to watch television instead of listening to the stories of the kamishibai man. The storyteller knew that time had passed him by and stopped going to the city. Though many years have passed and the storyteller was now very old, he decides to make one more trip to the city and be a kamishibai man one more time. What will he find when he reaches the city?

SUBJECTS:     Kamishibai -- Fiction.
                        Street theater -- Fiction.
                        Storytelling -- Fiction.
                        Japan -- Fiction.