Author: Arlene Mosel (retold by)
Title: The Funny Little Woman
Illustrator: Blair Lent
Publisher: E. P. Dutton
Year: 1972
Format: Paperback with plastic cover
Genre: Caldecott
Reading Level: Elementary, Assisted
Interest-Level: Elementary
Topics: Food, Cooking, Magic, Folklore, Japan, Ghosts, and Monsters
Summary: A little old lady cooks a dumplings and one rolls out her door. As she goes to pick it up the earth opens up and she falls into a place with gods and a wicked oni. There she encounters magical things, laughing all along the way “tee-hee-hee”.
Extension Activities:
*Ask the students if they know where Japan is and explain to them it is folklore from Japan. You can tell them about the culture, food, etc.
