Angel Books Series: Nos. 1 - 10 (box set) (complete)

Ten unpaginated children's books [16 pp. each] printed in color on glossy boards, illus., with texts in English and a flexi disk sound recording (providing English narration.) Box set includes promotional flyer and the Angel Books Guide Book with simultaneous English-Japanese dual translations and vocabulary lessons (also illus.) Minor spotting throughout with a slight odor of basement storage. Illus. self wrappers, books with in clear vinyl protective covers, housed in bright blue case printed with the title series. [1223]

Ten-book series of traditional Japanese folktales with texts in English and a flexi disk sound recording (narrated in English) devised as tools for teaching young Japanese children the foreign language using familiar stories. Pictures by a who's-who of Japanese children's book illustrators, including Hiroshi Tada, Shinta Cho. Makoto Wada, and Kuniharu Naruse. Titles in the series are as follows:

01. Hanasaka Jijii (The Old Man Who Made Cherry Blossoms Bloom)

02. Momotaro (The Peach Boy)

03. Tengu To Oh-gi (Long-nosed Goblin and the Magic Fan)

04. Shitakiri Suzume (The Sparrow Who Got Her Tongue Cut Off)

05. Saru Kani Gassen (The Monkey and the Crab)

06. Issun Boshi (The Inchling Story)

07. Bunbuku Chagama (Bunbuku The Tea Kettle)

08. Inaba No Shirousagi (The White Rabbit of Inaba)

09. Nagai Hana No Tengu (Long-nosed Goblins)

10. Urashima Taro (the Fisherman)