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The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice

by Allen Say · 1979 · 160 pages

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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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Subject
biography
Genre
historical fiction
Setting
japan
Audience
childrensyoung adult
Length
short · 160 pages

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