Taro is fascinated by the strange actions of old Jiro-San, who sweeps the sand on the beach while waiting for the arrival of Japanese sea turtles ready to lay their eggs.
- ISBN10 0374378886
- ISBN13 9780374378882
- Publish Date 31 December 1997 (first published 7 August 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Language English