The boy in the garden

By Allen Say

Subjects: Japan, fiction, Birds, fiction, Dreams, Magic, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Folklore, Cranes (Birds), Dreams, fiction

Description: While his father visits Mr. Ozu to convey traditional New Year greetings, Jiro wanders out to the garden drawn to a life-like statue of a tall bird which reminds him of the "Grateful Crane" story that his mother had read to him.