Spirited Away – Picture Book

This is a fantastic picture book telling the story of one of the most popular Ghibli movies worldwide, the Oscar and BAFTA award-winning Spirited Away. The book mixes picture-book-style storytelling and manga-style speech bubbles, all accompanied by gorgeous illustration stills from the movie. The book is all in Japanese, but all kanji has furigana. The language is aimed for elementary-school to middle-school-age children to be able to read and enjoy, so it should suit most intermediate-level learners of Japanese. As such, the book provides the perfect reading practice for Ghibli fans that already know the story of Spirited Away. If you haven’t seen the film, the story is about a ten-year-old girl, Chihiro Ogino, and the discovery of a mysterious spirit world that she and her parents find by accident while traveling to their new home when her father decides to take a shortcut. The family's car stops in front of a tunnel leading to what appears to be an abandoned amusement park which C