What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

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SOLVED. Oversized Eastern mythology collection, possibly a series. [s]
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Chinese Mythology? Pub date is 2001 although there could be an earlier edition not listed.
Japanese Mythology (World of Mythology? Again pub date is too late, same caveat as above.
Japanese mythology, pub. 1969. You can see inside images here:
The publisher, Hamlyn, seems to have a mythology series. You can see more of them here:
Japanese Mythology (World of Mythology? Again pub date is too late, same caveat as above.
Japanese mythology, pub. 1969. You can see inside images here:
The publisher, Hamlyn, seems to have a mythology series. You can see more of them here:

I want to say that the Hamlyn series is a really good possibility because the format is familiar and the illustrations look right, but I remember there being the actual stories rather than a non-fiction look at the mythological stories. The Hamlyn books seem to be analyzing the mythology rather than just telling the stories.
Should I mark this as "possibly solved" or leave it as "unsolved?"
It's really up to you - I would only mark it "possibly solved" if your sense is very strong that you know it's the correct book or series. If you're less then 75% sure I would leave it as unsolved.

Okay. Leaving it unsolved until I can get a copy of the Japanese or Chinese to confirm

While the story of Taketori Monotagari/Kaguya Hime, a moon princess found in a bamboo by a bamboo cutter is a Japanese folktale, the World-bearing Turtle is more of a/an Hindu/Indian ones and the fan one might be related to 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West's Sun Wukong and Princess Iron Fan.
So I think you are looking for a general Eastern mythology book.


They were a series of Giant Golden Books. We may have had the Russian one and the Chinese one. My mom doesn't think we had the Japanese collection.
Sadly, she doesn't have them any more. I'm still looking for them in Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ, but here's a link on Amazon.
Moms know. That's great. Glad you found your book, Tess. Here's the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ link - Chinese Fairy Tales by Marie Ponsot.

Thanks! Thats not the edition we had, so I wasn't sure if I should link to it.
That's okay. We usually use the "default" edition that Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ returns in the header. This avoids duplication in the group's bookshelves.
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I think there might have been a couple books of mythology but I can only remember the one I had was Asian stories - a story about the turtle that carries the world on its shell, another one about fans, and about the moon princess found in a bamboo forest.
The illustrations were really pretty and in color, and I think the cover, along with having a drawing on it, was gold or light green.