Ichiro and the Great Mountain

<p>In <em>Ichiro and the Great Mountain</em> award-winning author and storyteller W. Nikola-Lisa crafts an original literary folktale for the upper elementary and middle school reader. It is a tale told in the manner of what comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell would call a Return of the Hero format with the setting ancient Japan rather than medieval Europe. Told in brief repetitive even cryptic episodes <em>Ichiro and the Great Mountain</em> follows a young free-spirited boy through the stages of life as he searches for his true self making this literary folktale a story of becoming or in the Buddhist tradition a story of self-realization and enlightenment.</p><p><br></p>