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[DeepL Translation - needs review] While his fellow wild rats were storing nuts for the winter, Frederick, for some reason, was doing nothing. But it is Frederick who saves the wild rats during the long winter. Tanikawa Shuntaro's poetic words and the cutout pictures of rats will open your imagination.
(Translator: DeepL)
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Page Count:
32
ISBN:
4769020023
ISBN13:
9784769020028
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Aerysays
September 29, 2024
As a children's book it is written in hiragana, but uses more complex words. The story of フレデリック is about a mouse who doesn't do physical work collecting food for winter in order to gather words for the long winter and the other mice get angry at him. When winter comes フレデリック reveals his purpose. The poetic language here is more complex than that of regular children's books and while it is still short, it is was significantly more difficult than others of its kind.
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If you're familiar with the English version of the book, that might help you understand this story. There is some more poetic words here and there.
It's written fully in hiragana with spaces between the words.
You can read this book for free by watching a read aloud on YouTube. Unfortunately some of text gets cut off in the video. https://youtu.be/HR_2g_8AAmw?si=lBVpxMLqKXMbyeUi