The Secret of the Blue Glass

A classic story about the adventures of a magical miniature family and their human guardians in wartime Japan

“Has a sensibility and a poetry of its own” — The Independent

“I love this book. How important it is, in these times, that our children read the stories from other peoples, other cultures, other times” – The Guardian

In a dusty library, in the quietest corner of a house in a Tokyo suburb, live the Little People: Fern and Balbo, Robin and Iris. Just a few inches high, sleeping in cigar...