User:Krtay/Yoshiko Uchida

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"Uchida graduated from Smith College with a M.Ed in 1944, and took a teaching position at Frankford Friends’ School in Philadelphia. Uchida soon quit teaching to move to New York and focus on her writing, studying at Columbia University, where she took a class on writing for children. It was there that Uchida began to adapt many of the Japanese folk tales her mother taught her for an American audience, and she published her first book, The Dancing Kettle, and Other Japanese Folk Tales with Harcourt, Brace in 1949."