Kamishibai+Man

=//Kamishibai Man// by Allen Say=

Summary
After many years of retirement, and old Kamishibai man--a Japanese street performer who tells stories and sells candies--decides to make his rounds once more even though such entertainment declined after the advent of television.*

Reviews

 * Mrs. Dusenbury's class: We liked the candy the Kamishibai man gave out to the children. We also liked the paintings he made because they were pretty, colorful, and neat. We did not like it when the one little boy had no money; the man should have given him some candy.
 * Mrs. Crymes' class: The basic premise for the story is good, but it was hard for us to grasp because of the changing time period, aging, and modernization. The afterword helped explain the story. The characters were good. It would have helped if the pronunciation of "Kamishibai" was given at the beginning instead of just at the end.

Links
Interview with the author: http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/bookzone/content/say.mspx include page="LOC Citation"