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I've added the cover. Your link doesn't seemn to work. Post the description here and it will get added.Claim your author profile here
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Thank you very much for your very swift reply and help.The full Google text is as follows -
The Kanji-Kan puzzles in this book focus on the 80 kanji that are learnt by Japanese school children in their first year at school.
The aim of the puzzles is to improve kanji recognition and writing skills through spaced repetition. However, unlike most text books, Kanji-Kan puzzles can be seriously addictive!
Kanji-Kan are not complicated to do and everyone who has completed a Sudoku puzzle should feel instantly at home.
Some of the cells in each grid are already completed and all you have to do is identify the missing characters and fill in the empty cells.
The rules are simple:
A kanji can be used only once in each row.
A kanji can be used only once in each column.
A kanji can be used only once in each small 3 x 3 block.
In addition to the 36 puzzles, and their solutions, the book contains clearly set out examples for each of the kanji, with on and kun readings for each character. There is also a detailed word list which gives 160 commonly used words, with readings in hiragana and translations into English.
The first 9 puzzles use the kanji as they are grouped on the example pages, but after that things get a little more unpredictable.
Are you ready for the Kanji-Kan challenge?
There is only one way to find out!
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Once again, thank you for your help and time.
I am sorry to trouble you again.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
Is not a second edition of Kanji-Kan (Puzzle Book 1) - it is the second book in the series -
Kanji-Kan (Puzzle Book 2)
The Image and blurb are correct on Google Books -
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Nb...
BUT they are wrong on Amazon - and probably everywhere else...
(I wouldn't have known this if it hadn't been for Goodreads! )
I will see what I can do to get this changed elsewhere, but I don't think I can make any ammendments here as the books does not appear to be one of "My Books".
The blurb should read –
The puzzles in this book focus on the 160 Kanji that are taught in the second year of compulsory education in Japan.
The aim of the puzzles is to improve Kanji recognition and writing skills. Unlike most other text-book exercises, however, Kanji-Kan puzzles can be seriously addictive.
Kanji-Kan are not complicated to do and everyone who has completed a Sudoku puzzle should feel instantly at home.
Each puzzle is based on a 9 x 9 grid. Some of the cells in each grid are already completed and all you have to do is identify the missing characters and fill in the empty cells.
The rules are simple:
- A kanji can be used only once in each row.
- A kanji can be used only once in each column.
- A kanji can be used only once in each small 3 x 3 block.
Where to begin?
Learn 9 new Kanji and then complete a puzzle, or simply dive in and see how many you know already?
The choice is yours.
There are 72 puzzles in total and these are divided into three sections.
Puzzles number 1 to 27
- 80 example kanji, with on and kun readings
- 27 puzzles featuring these kanji.
- 160 commonly used words, shown in kanji and hiragana, and with English translations.
Puzzles number 28 to 54
- 80 example kanji, with on and kun readings
- 27 puzzles featuring these kanji.
- 160 commonly used words, shown in kanji and hiragana, and with English translations.
Puzzles number 55 to 72
- 18 puzzles featuring all the 160 Kanji
- Solutions to all the puzzles
Are you ready for the Kanji-Kan challenge?
There is only one way to find out!
That was fast!!!Thank you, I appreciate your help very much.
I have just been to the Feedback group and it has been suggested that it would be better to ask here.
I am the author of the book in question and at the moment it has no thumbnail image and there is no description.
However, it is possible to see a Google preview, would it be acceptable to use the Google image, which is here -
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MJ...
- on goodreads?
If it would please can you advise me what I need to do to get the details updated. Thank you.