Tricked by a fox into giving up his share of cherries, a famous Japanese poet is inspired to write a haiku and the fox, ashamed of his actions, must devise another trick to set things right.
Asia
Materials from Asia
The Roses in My Carpets
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When a young boy and his mother and sister come to a refugee camp to escape the war in Afghanistan, he finds some comfort in the beauty of the carpets he is learning weave.
Buddha In The Garden
After a small boy is adopted by monks at a Buddhist temple, he spends his time tending the temple gardens and discovering the nature of enlightenment.
While We Were Out
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When someone leaves the patio door unlocked it’s just the opportunity the family’s pet rabbit needs to go exploring.
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Little Pear And His Friends
Six-year-old Little Pear has many adventures with Big Head and his other friends in his village in China.
The Spring Tone
Plagued by headaches and nightmares, Tomomi tries to make sense of her grandmother’s death, her little brother’s obsession with saving sick and abandoned cats, and her fear that she is becoming a monster.
Samir And Yonatan
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Samir, a Palestinian boy, is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital where he has two otherworldly experiences, making friends with an Israeli boy, Yonatan, and traveling with him to Mars.
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
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Nineteen poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the United States.
Haveli
Iqbal
When Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, he changes everything for the other overworked and abused children there. Iqbal explains that despite their master’s promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinitely. Iqbal also inspires the other children to look to a future free from toil…and is brave enough to show them how to get there.
This fictionalized account of the real Iqbal Masih is told through the voice of Fatima, a young Pakistani girl whose life is changed by Iqbal’s courage.
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