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Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

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First published: 1981
Pages: 226

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Totto-chan: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s The Little Girl at the Window is memoir of a Little Girl who likes to be in a curious position, asking adamant questions and going to an unconventional school in 1940 under wartime Japan. This is a story of individuality, it's whimsical anecdotes, interspersed with life lessons, celebrates individuality, kindness and the transformative power of education. A terribly warm hearted read.

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Was expelled from her first primary school at six for disrupting lessons, and her mother took her to Tomoe Gakuen, a school run out of disused railway carriages by a headmaster who listened to her talk for four hours on the first day without interrupting.

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