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Singing Shijimi Clams

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Singing Shijimi Clams

By Naomi Kojima
Illustrated by Naomi Kojima

2006, 32 pages, Hardback.

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Take one older, not-so-wicked anymore witch, add a slightly grumpy cat, and one large bucket of singing shijimi clams, and what you do NOT end up with, (no matter how hungry you are), is miso soup with clams. What you end up with is plain miso soup. What you end up with is a quiet, delicately illustrated tale of another country. What you end up with is a friendship that needs determination, ingenuity, and kindness - but no translation.

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"A feel-good episode if ever there was one."
- Kirkus Reviews

"A witch who used to be mean but is now merely grumpy is determined to make a bowl of miso soup with clams. But her clams sleep and snore so peacefully, she can't quite bring herself to dump them in the boiling water. Instead, she goes to the marketplace and tries to raise money to take them back to the beach, where they belong."
- TDMonthly.com

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About the Author

Naomi Kojima is an author and illustrator of picture books. Born in Japan, she spent her childhood years in the U.S. and studied sculpture at Rhodes College in Memphis,Tennessee. Kojima's first two picture books, Mr. and Mrs. Thief and The Flying Grandmother were published in New York soon after she joined a SCBWI chapter in Hatfield, Massachusetts. Since then, her books have been published in the U.S. and in Japan, and have been translated in France, Sweden, and Indonesia. Her recent picture books are, The Alphabet Picture Book and Utau Shijimi (The Singing Clams), published by Kaisei-sha.

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