![]() ![]() ![]() Similarly charming artwork illustrates the interconnectedness among nature, children, and creativity in six other episodic expeditions featuring distinct themes: “A Sea of Grass” “A Night of Stars” “Watermelon” (used as a boat) “A Window to the Sky” “Walnuts” (envisioned as coffee shop, bakery, and much more) and “Forest Ice” (evoking multicolored frozen treats in various flavors). ![]() It ultimately leads to an anthropomorphic pond that not only “blows water into the hose as hard as it can,” but also recedes “back to being its tiny, peaceful self at Sato’s playful signal that he’s done. As he tends to the garden, a blue hose winds, looking rather like a stream, along a bucolic, tree-studded landscape with romping animals. At the outset, Haneru Sato, a pale-skinned, black-haired lad, adopts both the identity and the likeness of a rabbit, thereby embracing alternate ways of experiencing the world. This Japanese import emphasizes perspectives-especially those belonging to children who improvise and innovate on prosaic tasks and the minutiae of daily life. A child’s vivid imagination transforms everyday activities into magical interactions. ![]()
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![]() After Sabotage, I wasn’t sure if I could look you in the eye, and now, I know I can’t but that’s okay we can still be friends and I will just stare at the floor. To the lovely Shantel Tessier- Ma’am! I wanna be friends. But, some people do so read them, please. I need it to be a twisted web of lies filled with graphic scenes of all kinds and Ms. I don’t need it to be completely realistic. Now, some people are probably going to say that the secret society idea is unrealistic and cheesy, and on a small level, they may be right. Shantel Tessier is my spirit animal of smutty books and I LIVE for them! 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I spent a whole morning trying to find a quote of Amy Hempel’s and I ended up in a search results list that told me what I already knew: dogs teach us lessons, dogs are better than people, and dog owners have a lot to say about all this.Įileen Myles’ new book, Afterglow, is “a dog memoir” whose central node is Rosie, Myles’ late pitbull, but it is not in any conventional sense a book about a dog. Their antics are one of the Internet’s enduring consolations. ![]() ![]() Todd, you wrote that this was the hardest book to write. Todd was kind enough to answer my questions about The Goodbye Book. We love Todd Parr at our house and I missed his visit to the kids’ school last year. You’ll remember how you laughed.” I felt better when my sweet Max said during the reading, ”Mama, you don’t have to worry about Tim anymore. You might not feel like talking to anyone. Using a goldfish who has lost his friend, Todd writes, “It’s hard say goodbye. 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He wasn’t being mean, his mama had been crying a lot this summer. ![]() As Max and I started to read Todd Parr’s The Goodbye Book, he asked me a question. ![]() ![]() ![]() But in modern times, literary fiction presents a conundrum: The more craftily constructed its suspense, the more it tempts its advocates - in the interest of airtime - to reach into a serious tale and pull out something resembling a tabloid headline. No reviewer could blow the surprise of a convict benefactor or Miss Havisham’s cobwebby cake when these were yet unwritten. The last writers to be unscathed by spoilers were probably the Victorians, who pounded out the likes of “Great Expectations” in weekly, serialized installments. To experience this novel exactly as the author intended, a reader should avoid the flap copy and everything else written about it. ![]() |