Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

This book takes the reader to revelation. It facilitates our understanding children; especially those who are tagged as 'troublesome', 'talkative', 'disturbing' and a lot more negative adjectives. The system of education and the approach towards facilitating learning in a child is well sketched out in this book. While reading this book the reader feels intently connected with the characters and relate with the events. Its like turning back and recalling our early school days.
Once Totto Chan was trying to find her lost purse from the gutter and had been fetching the material out of the sewage pit; the only question Mr. Kobayashi asked was whether she would put everything back in. After reading this, my respect for that gentleman soared higher than the Everest. We impose our fears, dislikes and beliefs upon children and nip them in bud; mostly unconsciously. This book helps us to observe ourselves.
The character of Totto Chan's mother also commands great respect. I wish all mothers are like her, all school principals are like Mr. Kobayashi and all schools in the world are like Tomoye. The world will return back to a perfect harmony.
My request to the reader of this review is to read this book once and I am sure you would want to not only read it again and again but also to recommend it to all who are dear to you.

Totto chan an inquisitive, happy child who grows to be an equally happy, confident adult. The story is mostly about the school which moulded her so wonderfully well, and much about the children loving headmaster is so vividly captured by the author. It makes the reader really love the headmaster and how beautifully well he understood children thinking from their point of view each time...

very well written.... wonderful book...!!

Absolutely a must-read for parents and all pre-primary and primary teachers. Shows us what teaching children should be all about! What a lovely book, leaves a good feeling in our hearts! I will enjoy reading this book again and again and I am sure, so will my daughter, when she grows up! A collector's book.

This book was a splendedly writen, I loved it, totto-chan is so cheery, my class loved it.