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Title: Tanuki's Gift by Tim J. Myers, Robert Roth ISBN: 0-7614-5101-3 Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corporation Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A DEFINITE must read.
Comment: I don't think I've ever written a review for anything ever, but I couldn't help but to say that I've never read a more heartwarming story. My six year old daughter and I just found this book to be so full of what true love and understanding really is. A DEFINITE must read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Delightful story
Comment: This is a lovely story and makes for a great read aloud. The pictures are beautiful and the lesson that friendship is worth more than gold is subtly taught.
Rating: 5
Summary: From Tim Myers
Comment: As a professional storyteller for over twenty years, I know a lot of stories--and because I lived in Japan for three years, Japanese folktales have always held a special attraction for me. When I first learned of this story, it began to work on me--I found I couldn't forget it. I love its simple warmth, and its expression of harmony between human and animal. But I also love the way it addresses--in a simple but nuanced folktale kind of way--the nature of Buddhism. I'm still inspired by its insistence on love. Tanukis are found in many traditional Japanese stories, and they're known for both magic and mischief, sometimes even outright malice toward human beings. There's something precious, I think, in a story which presents a monk as "bending" from the severity of his spiritual regimen--and an animal known for trickery and thievery also "bending" from that role--to meet in a friendship in which each can be exactly who he is.
Forgive me for giving my own book five stars--I had to put something in that space! I hope you enjoy "Tanuki's Gift." Like so many folktales, its power and beauty emerge from simplicity--and yet can be quite profound. And children often accept this truth more readily than we adults do. I wrote my story for them, but also for the child in each of us.
All the best!
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Title: Belinda the Ballerina by Amy Young ISBN: 0670035491 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Basho and the Fox by Tim J. Myers, Oki S. Han ISBN: 0761450688 Publisher: Cavendish Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin : Naturalist, Geologist & Thinker by Peter Sis ISBN: 0374456283 Publisher: Frances Foster Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin ISBN: 006000150X Publisher: Joanna Cotler Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: The Day the Babies Crawled Away by Peggy Rathmann ISBN: 039923196X Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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