People From My Neighbourhood: Hiromi Kawakami

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People From My Neighbourhood: Hiromi Kawakami

People From My Neighbourhood: Hiromi Kawakami

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Neighborhood hosts can allow certain players to join their neighborhood even when it is set to "Friends" or "No one". A square and a triangle cut out of Mac-Tac. Fill the shapes with colourful tissue paper to create a stained-glass house. Game-House under construction) Print, laminate, and cut out each piece of the house. Children assemble the pieces to create a house. There's a little boy that can't live at home, so there's a yearly lottery between the other families in the neighbourhood who gets him that year.

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Sixteen of the 26 stories were published in Japan in 2016 under the title Konoatari no hitotachi (Folk from round about). The English edition is published by Granta in 2020; the translator is Ted Goossen (more about him directly below). Open writing activities-N like neighbourhood) Print for each child or laminate for use with a dry-erase marker. As the volume progresses, Kawakami moves further into the territory of magical realism. “Weightless” is a striking example of Kawakami’s surreal storytelling and delicious sense of irony: Kawakami’s style traffics in brevity, giving us images distilled to their core, sentences that go directly to the heart, and the narrative command to deliver entire lives within one sweeping breath . . . The surreal turns into something powerful in Kawakami’s hands, all the more devastating because it escapes our full understanding." —Brenda Peynado, The New York Times Book Review Rather fortuitously, I had just returned from a first-time trip to Japan, so when I was putting together the brief and references for Karen, I had all these specific architectural details fresh in my mind, which I think I might have missed if I’d had to rely solely on online research, such as the way greenery is squeezed in to the smallest of urban spaces. But it was Karen’s attentiveness and sensitivity to the text which really brought the narrative and the visual elements together. And it was her training as a theatre designer that led her to suggest the perspective and the way the buildings would reveal themselves:

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Open stencils-My neighbourhood) Print and cut out the various stencils. Children can use them to trace or paint items related to the theme. As the title itself suggests this collection transports readers to a Japanese neighbourhood and each story reads like a short vignette detailing an odd episode involving a resident of this neighbourhood. The stories are loosely interconnected as we have recurring figures—such as Kanae and her sisters or the school principal—who make more than one appearance. Occasionally one is even left with the impression that they vaguely contradict one another, or that time doesn’t quite unfold as it should in this neighbourhood. This elasticity with time and reality results in a rather playful collection that is recognizably a product of Kawakami’s active imagination. Her offbeat approach to everyday scenarios does make for an inventive collection of stories. There is a story about the unusual lottery that takes place in this neighbourhood (the loser has to take care of Hachirō, a boy with a voracious and seemingly never-ending appetite), one about the bitter rivalry between two girls named Yōko, one about a princess moving to the neighbourhood, another recounting the origin of the Sand Festival, and many detailing people who are curses or are part of some sort of prophecy. There is a lot of surrealism but it is so well done that it just blends in! In that world, it is all plausible. A lot of it seems like memories from childhood recounted by an adult- but without the ability to entirely separate the real from folklore. Without the ability to discern what elements of local gossip are factual and which parts you imagined. I saw things I imagined. I imagined things.

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An eerie, surreal collection, absurd and funny, that fans of fabulism and magical realism will enjoy. The stories all come together to paint a portrait of a town where the lines between reality and magic are thin and the shadows hold all manner of surprises." —Leah Rachel von Essen, Book Riot Similarly, we also organize events from time to time so that the whole neighbourhood gathers and enjoy themselves. I have a lot of friends in my neighbourhood with whom I play.Open educa-decorate-My neighbourhood) Print, cut out, and laminate. Use the illustrations to decorate your walls and hang a few from the ceiling. Use the flashcards to spark a conversation with your group, in your reading and writing corner, or to identify your thematic bins. (Open word flashcards-My neighbourhood) (Open giant word flashcards-My neighbourhood) house, store, tree, car, parking lot, hedge, shed, street lamp, swimming pool, church, playground, restaurant. I took inspiration from ‘miniature art’, where tiny figures and found objects are combined to create photographic compositions which play with scale and narrative. It felt like an appropriate direction for the cover – to make a physical neighbourhood at a micro scale. As I considered how I might translate this idea into the production of a cover, a chance conversation with a studio mate led me to model-maker Karen Britcliffe. Open educ-differences-My neighbourhood) Print and laminate for durable, eco-friendly use. Children must identify the differences between the two illustrations and circle them with a dry-erase marker.



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