Cool melons--turn to frogs!
Subtitle: the life and poems of Issa
By: story and Haiku translations by Matthew Gollub ; illustrations by Kazuko G. Stone ; calligraphy by Keiko Smith.
Contributors: Stone, Kazuko G., ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Kobayashi, Issa, 1763-1827 -- Juvenile literature.; Kobayashi, Issa, 1763-1827.; Poets, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Poets, Japanese.; Haiku.
Description: A biography and introduction to the work of the Japanese haiku poet whose love for nature finds expression in the more than thirty poems included in this book.