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| Price: |
$16.00 |
| Member Price: |
$14.40 |
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| Author: |
Gershator,P |
| Publisher: |
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 3/07 |
| Format: |
HC,
40pp |
| Region: |
East Asia |
| Country: |
Japan |
Despite criticism for his lack of "accomplishments," Takeboki finds contentment sweeping flower blossoms and raking the sand and gravel in the monks' temple garden. Includes a note on the art and beauty of Japanese gardens.
Young Takeboki needs a job and the monks in the temple need a flower keeper – so Takeboki sets to work, sweeping up flowers and leaves and creating swirling miniature worlds of his own in the temple garden. As the years go by, others ask him: Don’t you want a better job? But as the seasons shift, each as beautiful as the last, Takeboki knows the pleasures of nature and of humbly doing a job well. He is happy. Luminous collage illustrations created from delicate Japanese papers by a Caldecott Honor artist bring to life this thought-provoking tale that, with its Zen Buddhist sensibility, has much to say about work, wisdom, and the joy of being true to oneself.(BIP)
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