Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi is a Japanese actress, voice actress, tarento, World Wide Fund for Nature advisor, and Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. She is well known for her charitable works, and is considered one of the first Japanese celebrities to achieve international recognition.
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window- Name of the book:
- Totto-Chan: The Little Girl At The Window
- Original Title:
- Madogiwa no Totto-chan
- Characters:
- Totto-chan, Totto's mother, Totto's father, Rocky, Sosaku Kobayashi
- Writer:
- Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
- Translated by:
- Dorothy Britton
- Cover and Illustrator:
- Chihiro Iwasaki
- Published on:
- 1981 (original) or 1982(in English)
The first language, that published was in Japanese
- Genre
- Children's literature, Autobiographical novel
- Translated languages of the book:
- Arabic
- Burmese
- Chinese
- French
- Italian
- German
- Korean
- Malay
- Nepali
- Tagalog
- Vietnamese
- Indonesian
- Thai
- Russian
- Uyghur
- Sinhala
- Lao
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Gujarati
- Telugu
- Assamese
- Kannada
- Tamil
- Malayalam
- Bengali
- Oriya
Totto-chan becomes best friends with a Christian boy who has polio. A classmate had been raised in America, all his life and cannot speak Japanese, the headmaster tells the children to learn English from him.
Totto-Chan is the protagonist, looks at the world from an innocent point of view. Totto's mother: Totto's mother is always supportive and caring for her child, but she always gives Totto her own space. Totto's father is a violinist and an artist. Sosaku Kobayashi made Totto's life at her new school a pleasant journey. Tomoe Gakuen is not a living character.
It is three dimensional. The language is really simple as if written by a little girl, which makes it even more believable.
The book is written well, as it has many inspiring stories.
Totto-Chan 2
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