Basho's Haiku Journeys

by Freeman Ng

Book Overview

Recipient of the 2021 Northern Lights Book Awards Poetry Category

Haiku tell the story of the poet Basho and the diaries he wrote while walking throughout Japan in the 1600s.

The seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho practically invented the haiku. He's most famous for his travel journals. But how did he come to be such a traveler in the first place?

This delightful volume--composed entirely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611720699
• ISBN13: 9781611720693
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5