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Anh’s Anger

January 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Anh is a young Vietnamese boy happily building his tower of blocks when he is asked to stop to eat the  dinner his grandfather cooked. After repeated requests, Anh reluctantly stops building, but is suddenly ambushed by tears followed by anger. He lashes out at Grandfather who attempts to comfort him. [...]

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Madeline and the Bad Hat

January 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Madeline is a familiar and popular series to many so I thought I would introduce the stories to my daughter. We picked out this particular one by chance thinking it was about a hat, of course. But we were surprised to find Ludwig Bemelmans refers to the idiom of the bad [...]

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The Snake Who Was Afraid of People

December 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Barry Louis Polisar’s The Snake Who Was Afraid of People is the tale of a young snake named Leo, who is afraid of people —  a fear stemming from his observations of how humans treat the natural world, including snakes. This fear of people leads other snakes to make fun of [...]

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Zen Ties

October 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL Jon J. Muth amuses and teaches again through the character of Stillwater the Zen panda in this second children’s book of Buddhist teachings. Just like in Zen Shorts, the giant panda is introduced by a child who notices a bear “sitting.” The watercolor illustrates Stillwater sitting Zazen in the traditional cross-legged Zen [...]

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