The secret of the blue glass
| ISBN: | 9781782690344, 1782690344 |
| OCLC Number: | 919220170 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Author: | Tomiko Inui |
| Translator: | Ginny Tapley Takemori |
| Language: | en |
| Publisher: | Pushkin Children's Books |
| Publication Place: | London |
| Japanese Copyright Year: | 1967 |
| English Publication Date: | 2015 |
| Notes: | Japanese title: Kokage no ie no kobitotachi |
| Abstract: | 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 cigarette boxes and crafting shoes from old book jackets, they need only one thing from their Humans, a nightly glass of milk, served in a sparkling Blue Glass goblet, by a trusted young member of the Human family. But when the Second World War comes to Japan, bringing a dangerous new kind of patriotism, both Humans and their beloved Little People face a world they could never before have imagined. |
| Subjects: | Children, Japan, Juvenile fiction Magic, Juvenile fiction Tomato Inui, Translations into English |