Totsky! (Review: Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at The Window)
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Glad that I just finished
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at The Window, written by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi from
Japan. I have ever read this title a long time ago and have a yen for it so
much but never have time for reading it but now. The book is so much inspiring
for me and I suggest to people who loves and cares about children and their
world especially development of education should read this book. And surprisingly
I knew the author is the main character in this book when I through the end
part of book. Yeah, she is Totsky! (the other call name of Totto-Chan by her
father and Rocky—her dog). I wonder how the book could be as I have been
dreaming for an ideal school. The story begin since Toto-Chan—a
first grade student should be dropped-out from a elementary school because her teachers
thought that she had a bad manner in the classroom and couldn’t handle it. The
teacher said to Totsky’s mother that Totsky was open and close her drawer for
more than 100 times a day. Furthermore, she always stand by the window waiting
for bucker through the street and when they were coming, she will call bucker
to play their music then she asked their classmates to see bucker's performance
while the teacher was teaching.
Totsky moved to another school named
Tomoe—a basic school in the wagon founded by Kobayashi. Yeah wagon, where the
student in every grade took a wagon as their classroom which was filled up by
around 10 students. She was a happy girl when she knew that the school has
unique learning method and kind hearted teachers especially the headmaster. The
student could learning depended on their mood, based on what they like and
skill, still many activities like walking around, observing nature, sport,
music, camping, singing, dancing, swim naked, and others school daydream learning
method. Honestly it makes me remember of Sekolah Alam (Nature School)—my last
year program in college which suited to the growth of children. I think Totsky absolutely
not a naughty girl. She has a huge curiosity that supposed to service by the
right people. And the story recommend to those who cares children and their world,
to every single teacher in the world, to prospective teachers, to parents about
how to understand also how to treat children, and to children themselves how to
manage their curiosity! I have never recommend any good book in the sense really
good book but this one. Happy reading!
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