![]() ![]() Finally, the Kamishibai Man and his wife make what. A fascinating window on a bygone art form. The Kamishibai Man used to ride his bicycle into town where he would tell stories to. Say effectively incorporates two illustration styles here-lovely soft watercolors and a more cartoonish style for flashbacks to the heyday of kamishibai. Soon enough, Grandpa’s surrounded by a crowd of adults who remember him from their childhood, and, ironically, he ends up on the evening news. Dismayed, he parks his bike in a vacant lot and begins to recount not the beloved “Peach Boy,” but his own story of how his show was eventually replaced by television (initially referred to as denki, or electric kamishibai!). Unfortunately, it’s been so long he finds himself in an unrecognizable city with tall buildings and rude drivers. This nostalgic story begins when Grandpa, once a kamishibai man, gets a hankering to resurrect his show. Kamishibai Man By: Allen Say Illustrated By: Allen Say Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / 2005 / Hardcover Write a Review In Stock Stock No: WW79546 The Kamishibai man used to ride his bicycle into town where he would tell stories to the children and sell them candy, but gradually, fewer and fewer children came running at the sound of his clappers. Kamishibai means “paper theater” in Japanese, and when Caldecott artist Say was a boy in Japan in the 1940s, a “kamishibai man” on a bicycle used to sell sweets and tell serial tales of heroes and heroines, using picture cards and a wooden stage. ![]()
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