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The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice
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The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice Hardcover - 1994

by Say, Allen

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  • Hardcover
  • Signed
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. Signed. 149 pp. Light wear on dust jacket. Pages very clean; tight binding. Signed by author. First Edition. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 in - 9 3/4 in Tall. Year: 1994.
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  • Title The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice
  • Author Say, Allen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
  • Date 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BBS-043640
  • ISBN 9780395705629 / 0395705622
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6.26 x 0.76 in (23.70 x 15.90 x 1.93 cm)
  • Ages 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 730
  • Library of Congress subjects Japan - Fiction, Artists - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94013749
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Thirteen-year-old Kiyoi, an apprentice to the famous cartoonist, Noro Shinpei, tries to develop his talent and become self-reliant, in this novel based upon the author's own boyhood in Japan.

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"A warm, sensitive portrait of growing up in post-war Japan." Booklist, ALA, Starred Review

"The Caldecott Medalist draws on his boyhood in postwar Tokyo for this autobiographical novel about a talented boy's artistic education." Publishers Weekly