Kuroyanagi tetsuko biography of mahatma
Kuroyanagi tetsuko biography of mahatma
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Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Japanese book
For the film, see Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window (film).
Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window (Japanese: 窓ぎわのトットちゃん, Hepburn: Madogiwa no Totto-chan) is an autobiographical memoir written by Japanese television personality and UNICEFGoodwill AmbassadorTetsuko Kuroyanagi.
The book was published in 1981, and became an "instant bestseller" in Japan.[1] The book is about the values of the unconventional education that Kuroyanagi received during World War II at Tomoe Gakuen, a Tokyoelementary school founded by educator Sosaku Kobayashi.[1][2]
The Japanese name of the book is an expression used to describe people whom society considers to be failures.[3]
Background
After hearing about how children were refusing to attend school, Tetsuko decided to write about her experience attending Tomoe Gakuen.[4]Totto-chan was originally published in Japan as a