TOTTO CHAN
The Little Girl at
the Window
Totto Chan is an
extraordinary book written by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a Japanese television
personality and UNICEF goodwill ambassador. It is published by Kodansha
International, Japan. It consists of 230 enthralling pages. In this book she describes her childhood days during
World War II at a very novel kind of a school named Tomoe Gakuen. The school is
really unique with Sosaku Kobayashi as its headmaster. The educator adopts
different and innovative methods in this school. Lots of fun games and activities
are organized to make school an exciting place. The school has successfully bagged
a place in my list of favourite schools, after Hogwarts.
Totto Chan is a
very naughty girl who got expelled from her first school. She then joins this
school where she’s fascinated to the core- railroad classrooms, swimming sessions, walks after studies and lots of other fun stuff! She mingles with her
surroundings soon. Another character I liked the most is Yasuaki Chan, a boy having
polio. There are also other handicapped children who also study along with the
other children, thus eliminating the differences between them. There are many
funny anecdotes along with very touching ones. Some of the ones I loved were
the bravery test, the cesspool incident and how Totto Chan tries to make Yasuaki
Chan climb her tree.
I really loved
this book. I would like to recommend this to all students, starting from class
VI. Hope you too will love Tomoe and Totto Chan just the way I did!
T.Anagha Sivadas
S4399
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