Found: 1960s Children's novel girls ?sisters visiting Japan

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Found: 1960s Children's novel girls ?sisters visiting Japan

1rubylynch
Oct 23, 2024, 2:06 pm

A fairly short chaptered novel read to a UK class of 8/9 year olds around 1969/1970. Featured 2 girls, possibly sisters, visiting not living Japan I think. Mentioned tea ceremony and kimono descriptions. Also described paper sliding screens and they may have been pictured on the cover.

3rubylynch
Oct 23, 2024, 5:29 pm

Thankyou but definitely not that book. That wasn't a book series we used and although what I remember was a novel it was more information/realistic based and possibly aimed at a higher age group.
Sorry for so little detail, it was a long time ago!

4rarm
Edited: Oct 23, 2024, 7:42 pm

Books from the right period in Worldcat, these all look to feature a brother and sister though:

Visit With Us In Japan 96 pages, a US publication

Ann and Peter in Japan, part of a series called "The Kennedys Abroad"

Our Japanese Playmates

5rubylynch
Oct 24, 2024, 3:34 am

Thanks for the suggestions but still not the book I'm thinking of yet.

6rubylynch
Edited: Dec 30, 2024, 11:30 am

Found! By chance I heard the title mentioned on BBC radio 4 and have just listened to a dramatisation. I had the gist but it wasn't sisters in Japan it was about 2 cousins and one of them makes a Japanese doll house and the story is told partly by the 2 dolls, describing their house, the paper screens, tea ceremony etc. I remembered as soon as I heard the title - Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden 1961.

7MissSquish
Dec 30, 2024, 7:40 pm

8welt-kids
Dec 30, 2024, 10:12 pm

Oh, please read the sequel, Little Plum, too.

9rubylynch
Dec 31, 2024, 4:45 am

Thankyou, I will.

10DisassemblyOfReason
Jan 1, 2025, 9:08 am

touchstone: Little Plum