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The house with 100 stories / Toshio Iwai ; [English translation by Yukiko Hanes].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: New York : Holiday House, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First English editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780823455683
  • 0823455688
Other title:
  • House with one hundred stories
Uniform titles:
  • 100-kai date no ie. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: After receiving a mysterious invitation, Tochi climbs a one hundred story house where he meets a menagerie of animals.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Picturebook New IWAI TOSHIO Checked out 06/29/2024 33111011118144
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Picturebook New IWAI TOSHIO Checked out 06/14/2024 33111011250020
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

100 floors. 100 new friends. 100 stories. Flip open this towering book vertically to climb and count with Tochi as he tries to discover who lives at the top of a strange, magical house.

Tochi receives a mysterious invitation to the House with 100 Stories. On each floor, Tochi meets the colorful, animal residents from squirrels working on their bonsai garden to bats taking baths on the ceiling. But who sent the invitation? Why do they live at the top of this strange house? Tochi must climb to the top to find out!

With a unique structure, readers flip open this book vertically to reveal towering illustrations of the House with 100 Stories. Readers feel like they are climbing the tower with Tochi as they follow the text from bottom to top.

Where's Waldo? meets My Neighbor Totoro in this highly detailed and adorably illustrated counting book. Each floor features its own mini story as the reader counts with Tochi from 1 to 100. Packed with fun, hidden details, young readers will discover something new with every read.

A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Ages 4-8. Holiday House.

Grades K-1. Holiday House.

"First published in Japan in 2008 by KAISEI-SHA Publishing Co., Ltd."--Colophon

After receiving a mysterious invitation, Tochi climbs a one hundred story house where he meets a menagerie of animals.

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