Japanese Reader Collection Volume 7: The Little Match Girl: The Easy Way to Read Japanese Folklore, Tales, and Stories

Andersen's classic, in Japanese - every sentence broken down for upper-beginner readers.

A barefoot girl tries to sell matches on the last night of the year. No one buys. She strikes the matches one by one for warmth, and each small flame opens onto a vision - a warm stove, a roast goose, a glowing Christmas tree, her grandmother. This volume presents Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" as a Japanese retelling: a Danish story carried into the gentle pacing of Japanese folktale ...