Anno's magic seeds /
Magic seeds
written and illustrated by Mitsumasa Anno.
- New York : PaperStar, 1999, c1995.
- [34] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
"Originally published in Japanese in 1992 by Dowaya Publishing Co., Tokyo, under the title: Fushigina tane.
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The reader is asked to perform a series of mathematical operations integrated into the story of a lazy man who plants magic seeds and reaps an increasingly abundant harvest.