Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

First Asian edition cover (English)
Author	Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Original title	Madogiwa no Totto-chan
Translator	Dorothy Britton
Illustrator	Chihiro Iwasaki
Cover artist	Chihiro Iwasaki
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Genre	Children's literature, Autobiographical novel
Publisher	Kodansha Publishers Ltd.
Publication date	1981
Published in English	1982
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	232
ISBN	978-4-7700-2067-3 [Books 1]

Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window (Japanese: 窓ぎわのトットちゃん, Hepburn: Madogiwa no Totto-chan) is an autobiographical memoir written by Japanese television personality and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. The book was published in 1981, and became an "instant bestseller" in Japan.^[1] The book is about the values of the unconventional education that Kuroyanagi received during World War II at Tomoe Gakuen, a Tokyo elementary school founded by educator Sosaku Kobayashi.^[1][2]

The Japanese name of the book is an expression used to describe people who have failed.^[3]

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