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Go To Sleep, Gecko!: A Balinese Folktale

Book Importer — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:42:20 +0000

The author of The Girl Who Wore Too Much retells the folktale of the gecko who complains to the village chief that the fireflies keep him awake at night but then learns that in nature all things are connected.

Dorje’s Stripes

Book Importer — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:46:09 +0000

Dorje is a beautiful Royal Bengal tiger but he has no stripes. In a small Buddhist monastery in Tibet, Master Wu explains the reasons behind Dorjes missing stripes, and offers hope for the future.

The Brothers Story

Book Importer — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:48:38 +0000

Teenage twins Kit and Christy have grown up amid grinding poverty in their Essex village. As Christy has been “simple” from birth, Kit is literally his brother’s keeper. But the latest hardships visited upon their country home by the Great Frost of 1683–84 bring Kit to frustration and despair, and he abandons Christy to make his way to London, seeking to better himself. There he finds work as an apprentice to a struggling artist and much else to take his mind off what he has left behind. But the time comes when he can no longer ignore the problem of his brother. A fascinating portrait of a young person struggling to balance family and freedom, The Brothers Story is also a frank depiction of Restoration London in its bawdy, raucous glory.

Sir Lofty and Sir Tubb

Book Importer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:01:03 +0000

When two neighboring kingdoms argue over a beautiful flower it turns into war. The couples learn to share and bring peace to their lands.