it’s been a busy week… but I should have time later today. Mayhaps I will try my hand at a full page translation tonight 
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それに、足音まで かさなります。
Also, there is the sound of footsteps
山野さんが、つくえに むかって げんこうを 書いて いると、げんぞうがかりの 吉田さんが、小さなしゃしんを たくさん おいて いきました。
When Yamano-san was writing a draft turned on his table, the photographic editor Toshida-san leaved a lot of small pictures
ごんざ山で うつした しゃしんです。
They are the pictures he took at Gonzayama
さて、どれを えらぼうかと、山野さんは、一まいずつ ていねいに 見はじめました。
Well, which one should select? Yamano-san started looking one at a time
No idea what うかと is
そのうち、山野さんの 目が 丸く なりました。
Soon his eyes opened like saucers (His eyes become circles) (I think it’s the right idiom)
「き、きつねの しゃしんだ。」
T-the picture of a fox
むかいあった 大きな きつねと 小さな きつね！
There was a big and a small fox facing each other!
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How about 「選ぼうかと」?
- volitional form of 選ぶ
- か question particle
- と particle (I’m not sure which one, maybe quoting thoughts?)
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それに、足音まで かさなります。
Even the sounds of footsteps were overlapped on top of that.
山野さんが、つくえに むかって げんこうを 書いていると、
Yamano-san was working at his desk writing a draft when
げんぞうがかりの 吉田さんがい、
Yoshida-san, the person in charge of film development,
小さな しゃしんを たくさん おいて いきました。
placed a heap of small photographs (on Yamano-san’s desk) and left.
ごんざ山で うつした しゃしんです。
These are photos taken at Mount Gonza. (This ends with です, not でした like the other descriptions…so I thought it may be Yoshida-san informing Yamano-san?)
さて、どれを えらぼうかと、
Well then, which one should I choose, (he thought(?))
山野さんは、一まいずつ てねいに 見はじめました。
Yamano-san started to carefully look through each picture, one by one.
そのうち、山野さんの 目が 丸く なりました。
Soon afterwards, Yamano-san’s eyes became round.
「き、きつねの しゃしんだ。」
“I-it’s a picture of foxes!”
むかいあった 大きな きつねと 小さな きつね！
A picture of a big fox and small fox facing each other!
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大きな きつねは、ひたいに 手を かざして います。
The big fox hold his hand over his forehead
一体、いつ うつしたんだ？
When the heck I took it?
しばらく 見て いた 山野さんの 耳に、「山の 日は、はよう しずむで」と 言った、松ぞうじいさんの しずかな 声が 聞こえて きました。
He was looking for a while and heard Matsuzou-Jin gentle voice “The day in the mountain ends early “
ーーそうか。
——oh, I see
たった 二ひきだけ、のこって いたんだよ。
There are only two animals remained
山野さんは うなずくと、引き出しの おくに、きつねの しゃしんを そっと しまいました。
Then Yamano-san nodded and gently put away the photo of the foxes 
inside the drawer.
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Well I finally had time to read this book. The way my life shapes up, I don’t have time or inclination to read one page a day, I’d rather read several all together. (I have reading sessions 4 times a week. Mostly on different days, so I basically sit down to read 4x/week.) I hadn’t meant for it to take almost two weeks to get to though. (I’m also reading the other ABBC book, and some of my own stuff.)
I am grateful for the translations since they helped clarify some things for me, but I would say that this isn’t my preferred format. I much prefer the “ask about a sentence (perhaps trying to break it apart first) and having helpful people answer” as the main format.
So I can’t help by adding my own translations (I don’t do them for myself except for really hard sentences). For the next story I will try to read a bit more timely so I can also add my opinion/ideas to some translations without being hopelessly behind on that (and therefore it would be a bit late and disjointed).
How this story was for me (yes, I read the last page ahead of time):
It was a bit hard, because there were a lot of more descriptive language used that I haven’t seen in the other things I’m reading. That’s where translations really helped because those words weren’t always added to the spreadsheet either. (I read through the whole story last night.)
A bit more kanji would be helpful because then I could start guessing at the meaning of the words I don’t know, but alas this is a graded reader for Japanese children. XD
The story was very sweet in the end, and the picture of the foxes was very cute and sweet.
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Definitely agree with the thought that more kanji would help. There were just so many words that sound the same but have different kanji and meanings. I mean, there were a few words that had the same kanji but meant ten different things depending on the context, but… just a few. Never mind how difficult it was to try and figure out where one word starts and ends. Glad this book uses spaces. Who’d have thought I’d be asking for more kanji by the end of this story?
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That’s why we study these books - to make people want kanji. 
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あっ…そうか！
much effective. am convinced.
back to my reviews I go~ 
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I guess you can just post your translation anyway without checking the spoilers. Or also why this is that, it grammar point, etc. and I believe you can also post your translation even if it’s a few days late
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Eeeh, I don’t do translations. I realize I wasn’t very clear.
If I have trouble with a sentence and I can’t find a way to figure it out, I break a sentence apart and ask for help with figuring it out.
But since there are translations there is no reason to do that because I can check if I roughly understand something correctly. But it also means those helpful breakdowns doesn’t happen as cohesively. I did notice that someone (sorry on mobile so I can’t check who easily) did some of that breaking down. But it isn’t quite the same.
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What I mean is that you can do the breakdowns and just don’t check the translation. I think we can all learn from both options
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Ah right. Well, maybe I will. But I will admit that the translations are too tempting to ignore, especially since it takes me 30 seconds to check a translation and probably 20-30 minutes to write up a breakdown post (mostly because of formatting and switching between keyboards and looking up the different parts, etc.).
Perhaps when even a translation doesn’t help me understand how it came to mean that. 
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At least you can copy all the Japanese from the “translation” post. It be the first to post it 
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–これは、なかった ことに しよう。
”This, we’ll treat it like it never existed."
たばこに 火を つけました。
He lit his cigarette.
そして、その たばこの けむりを 見ながら、
And then, as he watched the smoke from the cigarette,
–あの 二人に、おいしい ものでも おくって やろう。
“I’ll have to bring those two something delicious or something.”
–どんな ものを よろこぶかな。
“What kinds of things would they like?”
と、そんな ことを せわしく考えはじめました。
he began to busily think about such things.
aaand we’re done with the first story 
slowly but surely getting through it 
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Thanks everyone for finishing the story. I followed along at the end but did not have the time to post. That whole process is time consuming so I appreciate the work you guys did at the end.
Now that it’s over:
Summary
Why was grandpa so grumpy at the start but posed for the picture anyway? The reporter said he would be happy just to get a picture of the den. Did I miss a part that caused grandpa to have a change of heart?
Did we ever agree on whether or not the trees were actually speaking? Given the magic foxes, it seems they were but the reporter did not seem to think it was strange. Which has me leaning toward the figurative interpretation.
Why do you think the reporter chose keep the photos a secret?
I have the same doubts 
The two live alone in the mountain. Then a super polite friendly reporter comes to takes a couple of pictures of foxes.
Grumpy grandpa it’s not happy about it, because humans and deseases took them, but in the end he is like f*** it, I’ll take you to the woods.
The reporter is super happy and takes a bunch of photos. Then grandpa is back and calls for the grandchild. Something about trees and a shortcut to come back.
He takes a pictures of both of them.
3 days later, while preparing the story, he discovers they are both foxes. Ok, everything cool.
The end
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Did these foxes turn into humans to survive?
I took the grandpa character as the “gruff on the outside, soft on the inside” type of character. So he didn’t want anything to do with the reporter at first. But after a lot of polite(?) persistence, the reporter was able to win the grandpa over.
I felt the scene where the grandpa went out of his way to call the kid and had him guide the reporter down the mountain before the sun goes down let us know he’s a big softy.
I think the reporter kept the photos to protect the foxes’ privacy. There were only two left on the whole mountain. Maybe he didn’t want to bring them unwanted attention. So that they can live in peace.
Eh… still not sure about the screaming/yelling trees. The whole story turns into horror when they come up😅
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I’m currently house bound preparing for a hurricane that can’t decide which way to go. Will we start the next story soon or have a cooling off period?