The Lantern That Would Not Float
A Lantern Tales StoryBy Hoshi Kawamura
Length38m
About this audiobook
Twelve-year-old Mio has folded lanterns for her grandmother's paper shop since she could hold a brush, and she knows the one rule of the festival: once a lantern is on the river, you never touch it again. But this year, one old lantern refuses to go. It drifts back to the steps again and again, and the old people whisper that a spirit is holding it. Inside the paper, Mio finds a single name she has never heard, written in her grandmother's hand. To set the lantern free, she must follow the river upstream in the dark, to a bridge that no longer exists, a tea house that is only open at night, and a promise her grandmother made fifty-one years ago. An original story inspired by the lantern festivals of Japan, for listeners of all ages.
Audiobook details
GenreFairy Tales and Folklore, Fantasy
Length38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1. A Thousand Small Fires
2Chapter 2. The Lantern That Came Back
3Chapter 3. Upstream
4Chapter 4. The Tea House at Night
5Chapter 5. The Promise
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6Chapter 6. The Bridge That Was Not There
7Chapter 7. Before Breakfast
8About Lantern Tales
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