Kamishibai: Old-style Japanese Storytelling

Author of Fly Catcher Boy, Rebecca Kool, explains how she SHOWS her book while she READS it, using the old-style Japanese storytelling way, called "kamishibai", or street theatre.

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• Rebecca Kool Author
• David Namisato Illustrator
• Gumboot Books
• Japanese
• Japan
• Kamishibai
• street theatre
• learn Japanese
• cats
• children's book
• bi-lingual books for kids
• sayonara

[KB1KiteBoy1]

Can you use Western fairy tales and Western stories in a kamishibai style or kamishibai is only for Japanese stories?

[takreb2]

@KB1KiteBoy1 While this way of storytelling began in Japan in the 30s, I see no reason why you can't use it to tell any story you wish! Keep me posted on what you do; I'd love to see how you incorporate western works....rebecca

[jacquiepearce]

Thanks for telling us about your story and kamishibai (reminds me of the "TV" I made when I was a kid by cutting a hole in a shoebox lid and drawing "shows" on a paper roll that unwound behind the hole).