My private library, "Noriko's World Library" opened in summer 1994. Mr. Hayashi, the writer of Asahi News Paper came visit and wrote about me library on the article on Sept. 12, 1994.
It was one year before the Huge Earthquake hit KOBE (west part of port city near Osaka & Kyoto)
This is one of the articles that tells what we could do for the children through picture books especially at the time of disaster.
Maya Angelow born on April 4, 1928. is Afro-American woman who wrote the story " I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". The poem "Still I Rise" has been a source of my life to keep going. This is the page from my newsletter in Sept. 1997.
This is the page from "Noriko's World Library" newsletter about Mrs. Lepman who founded the International Youth Library (IYL) and the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY)
My am specialized Language Teaching. This is the article that was in The Japan Association of Language Teaching (JALT), National Special Interest Group (NSIG) on Biligualism Newsletter. Children's Books "Noriko's Wrorld Library" (Vol.6 No.3 May/June 1997
Also, if you serch with Google by 2 key words, you can read the interview article of my library.
1 Noriko Inoue
2 Noriko's World Library.