The Many Lives of Chio and Goro is an original tale in which I have a farm couple pass through a series of animal reincarnations before being reunited again.
The Many Lives of Chio and Goro is an original tale in which I have a farm couple pass through a series of animal reincarnations before being reunited again.
Chio, the wife, has a very bad memory, so when she and her husband decide to be reunited in their next life as a fox, she absentmindedly becomes a chicken.
The comedy begins when Goro’s fox mother trains him to raid the chicken coop and continues as the couple recycle until they are reunited in human form.
A reviewer said that this tale can be appreciated on many levels. I understood this when a mother told me that she valued my book as a way of helping children deal with death. The droll humor of illustrator, Yasuo Segawa, catches the poetic, yet fantastic mood of the story.