title: The Ainu: A Story of Japan's Original People
author: Kayano Shigeru
description: Grade 3-6Shigeru attempts to preserve the language and the customs of the Ainu by providing autobiographical snapshots of growing up in the 1930s in Hokkaido, Japan. He shows his respect for the traditions of his people to honor nature and family in his own reminiscences and in his retellings of two traditional tales. He is also quite outspoken about his strong opposition to the Japanese government overrunning the land of Ainu Mosir. Unfortunately, the text is choppy and not well organized, and some of the material is not appropriate for children (for example, he describes how, when he was a boy, his mother would warm his cold hands between her breasts). This, combined with very small and crowded print, and somewhat dated-looking, earth-toned watercolors, makes the title uninviting. Readers will be much better served by Barbara Poisson's <i>The Ainu of Japan</i> (Lerner, 2002).<i>Nancy A. Gifford, Schenectady County Public Library, NY</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # [Copyright](../Text/toc.xhtml#toc-copyright)
  
  
  **A Mysterious Job Called  
  Oda Nobunaga, Vol. 3  
  Kisetsu Morita**
  
  
  Translation by Noboru Akimoto
  
  
  Cover art by Kaito Shibano
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is
  coincidental.
  
  
  ODA NOBUNAGA TOIU NAZONO SHOKUGYO GA MAHO KENSHI YORI CHEAT DATTANODE, OUKOKU
  WO TSUKURU KOTONI SHIMASHITA volume 3
  
  
  Copyright © 2018 Kisetsu Morita
  
  
  Illustrations copyright © 2018 Kaito Shibano
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Original Japanese edition published in 2018 by SB Creative Corp.
  
  
  This English edition is published by arrangement with SB Creative Corp., Tokyo
  in care of Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc., Tokyo.
  
  
  English translation copyright © 2021 b