Japan and American Children's Books : : A Journey / / Sybille Jagusch.
For generations, children’s books provided American readers with their first impressions of Japan. Seemingly authoritative, and full of fascinating details about daily life in a distant land, these publications often presented a mixture of facts, stereotypes, and complete fabrications. This volume t...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Note to the Reader
- Prologue: Japan in Early Books for Children: From Comenius to Commodore Perry
- Part I From Early Children’s Books to the End of the Nineteenth Century
- 1 They Went to Japan: The Post-Perry Travelers and Their Stories for the Young
- 2 Fact and Fiction: Travelogues and Adventure Tales about Japan to the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- 3 Takejiro Hasegawa: The Foreigners’ Publisher
- 4 Japan in St. Nicholas Magazine
- 5 The Children’s Book Writers and Their Information Sources: From Marco Polo to Madame Chrysanthème
- Part II The Twentieth Century
- 6 Globetrotting in Children’s Books: From 1900 to World War II
- 7 Louise Seaman Bechtel: America’s First Children’s Book Editor and Her Books about Japan
- 8 The Post–World War II Years
- 9 Three Japanese American Journeys
- 10 Into the Twenty-First Century
- Appendix: The Gatekeepers: Leading American Children’s Librarians and Their Influence on Children’s Books about Japan
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography and Further Reading
- Illustration and Text Excerpt Credits
- Index
- About the Author