Overview

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.
ISBN-13

9780374370077

ISBN-10

0374370079

Weight

0.96 Pounds

Dimensions

8.80 x 0.60 x 11.00 In

List Price

$16.00

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

40 pages

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published On

2007-03-20


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