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Title: A kids book that my kids dislike...
Review: My wife bought this and one other Japanese children's book for our kids for Christmas, and none of my three kids enjoy this book. I will give you that the art is very well drawn, but this is simply not an enjoyable story for a young child. The story makes very little sense to a western 5 year old.I'm not an expert on the Japanese language, by I do have several years of formal training in the language, and there were many parts of the translated story which were very suspect in the translator's word choice and pacing. Artistic license is one thing, this was kinda pushing it.Overall, a book that will be useful to my wife who is currently studying Japanese, but not one my kids enjoy at all, so I feel we could have just as easily bought a random Japanese newspaper subscription for my wife and have been just as well off.
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