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Belching Hill
By Hamilton, Morse & Rogers, Forest
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68814-561-3
- Publisher
- New York : Greenwillow Books, c1997.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 1997
K-Gr 3 This picture book is a new version of a Japanese folktale that was retold by Lafcadio Hearn early in this century. According to a brief author's note, details have also been borrowed from the retelling included in Ethel Phelps's The Maid of the North (Holt, 1982). An old woman lives at the top of a hill called Geppuyama, or Belching Hill. When a rice dumpling slips from her fingers and rolls underground, she follows it into a cavern of ogres. Demanding that she cook huge quantities of dumplings for them, the ogres give he...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
