One Seed - children's story and song by Rosemary Phillips



Over 700 One Seed drawings from children around the world in the Kids Art Gallery

Welcome to the "One Seed" English-Japanese and Japanese web page.



FREE PDFs of Japanese-English and Japanese books
One Seed as a Play
New Beginning International Preschool - Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Videos of children performing One Seed in Japan -



Click here for a FREE copy of the English-Japanese One Seed book as a PDF

Click here for a FREE copy of the Japanese One Seed book as a PDF

One Seed as a Play
"One Seed" can be performed as a play with children taking on the roles of narrator and seeds. Children can also create “a sound effects department” by using instruments, blocks of sandpaper, xylophone, keyboard sounds for birds and insects and wind, or the children can make the noises themselves such as the whooshing of the wind, or the sound of being weary and tired travelers. Please feel free to present "One Seed" in schools and places of worship and learning, or children’s groups, clubs and organizations anywhere in the world.
Click here for LINKs to scripts, lyrics, music and more - in English.

New Beginning International Preschool in Japan
Teacher Marcia Haug, at the New Beginning International Preschool in Japan, has been presenting One Seed as a play for the student's graduation. Parents and teachers created the sets and costumes, and the children took on the roles of seeds, plants, and birds and insects, and trees. The play has been presented in English, which the children are learning as their second language. Meanwhile in 2025 parents asked if the story could be published in their own language, Japanese. And so the One Seed book is now available in that language, and on this page, FREE as a PDF.
Thank you Marcia Haug for helping with the translation, and the teachers who also proofed the finished work.

One Seed performed by New Beginning International Preschool in Japan

One Seed performed in 2025 by New Beginning International Preschool in Japan

"This little story... gently reminds us that the courage of one has deep and far-reaching impact."
- Sound Kamploops

FREE PDF Japanese Book

FREE PDF
English-Japanese Book

Published and Copyright 2025
by Quills Quotes & Notes
Book English-Japanese
ISBN 978-1-928040-16-3
Electronic PDF English-Japanese
ISBN 978-1-928040-18-7
Book Japanese
ISBN 978-1-928040-17-0
Electronic PDF Japanese
ISBN 978-1-928040-19-4
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