Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
First Asian edition cover (English) | |
| Author | Tetsuko Kuroyanagi |
|---|---|
| Original title | Madogiwa no Totto-chan |
| Translator | Dorothy Britton |
| Illustrator | Chihiro Iwasaki |
| Cover artist | Chihiro Iwasaki |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre | Children's literature, Autobiographical novel |
| Publisher | Kodansha Publishers Ltd. |
Publication date | 1981 |
| Publication place | Japan |
Published in English | 1982 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 232 |
| ISBN | 978-4-7700-2067-3 |
Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window (Japanese: 窓ぎわのトットちゃん, Hepburn: Madogiwa no Totto-chan) is an autobiographical memoir written by Japanese television personality and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. The book was published in 1981, and became an "instant bestseller" in Japan. The book is about the values of the unconventional education that Kuroyanagi received during World War II at Tomoe Gakuen, a Tokyo elementary school founded by educator Sosaku Kobayashi.
The Japanese name of the book is an expression used to describe people whom society considers to be failures.