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y separately published work icon Kenju's Forest single work   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Kenju's Forest
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Although everyone in the village laughed at Kenju it did not spoil his happiness. One day Kenju decided to plant lots of trees in an empty field behind his family's house. Many people of the village teased Kenju about his trees but the children of the village loved to play in the forest. As time passes it serves as a fitting memorial to Kenju.(Source: from the Book)

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Notes

  • Adapted by Helen Smith from the original Japanese story by Kenji Miyazawa.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has Japanese imagery.

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Works about this Work

[Review] Kenju's Forest H. M. Saxby , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 34 no. 1 1990; (p. 14-15)

— Review of Kenju's Forest Kenji Miyazawa , Helen Smith (translator), 1989 single work picture book
[Review] Kenju's Forest H. M. Saxby , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 34 no. 1 1990; (p. 14-15)

— Review of Kenju's Forest Kenji Miyazawa , Helen Smith (translator), 1989 single work picture book
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