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Title Author
Call Number
Resource Type: Books
Yo! Yes? (Scholastic Bookshelf)
Raschka, Chris
FIC .017 RAS
An effective, unusual 34-word story of the beginnings of a friendship, accompanied by wild and wonderful
illustrations. Against pastel backgrounds, in vibrant, colorful images, an African-American boy and a white boy
meet on the street. "What's up?" "Not much." "Why?" "No fun." "Oh?" "No friends." These one- and two-word
exchanges on each spread lead to a tentative offer of friendship, sealed as both boys jump high in the air and yell
"Yow!" The succinct, rhythmic text and the strong cartoonlike watercolor-and-charcoal illustrations are perfect
complements. The feelings of each child run the gamut from loneliness, curiosity, fear of rejection, and
hopefulness to, finally, joy; the illustrations do a particularly fine job of limning each boy's emotions in very simple
images on the oversized pages.
- School Library Journal
Yo! Yes? (Scholastic Bookshelf)
Raschka, Chris
FIC .017 RAS
An effective, unusual 34-word story of the beginnings of a friendship, accompanied by wild and wonderful
illustrations. Against pastel backgrounds, in vibrant, colorful images, an African-American boy and a white boy
meet on the street. "What's up?" "Not much." "Why?" "No fun." "Oh?" "No friends." These one- and two-word
exchanges on each spread lead to a tentative offer of friendship, sealed as both boys jump high in the air and yell
"Yow!" The succinct, rhythmic text and the strong cartoonlike watercolor-and-charcoal illustrations are perfect
complements. The feelings of each child run the gamut from loneliness, curiosity, fear of rejection, and
hopefulness to, finally, joy; the illustrations do a particularly fine job of limning each boy's emotions in very simple
images on the oversized pages.
- School Library Journal
Zen Ties
Muth, Jon J.
FIC .144 MUT
Stillwater, the giant panda who taught Zen parables to siblings Karl, Addy and Michael in Zen Shorts, continues to
combine his slow-moving grace with genuine spiritual tranquility. This time, Michael faces a daunting spelling bee,
and Stillwater, first seen wearing a necktie, introduces the three to Miss Whitaker, an elderly neighbor whose
crabby outbursts have frightened them. Stillwater's inward eye sees through her anger to her fear and loneliness.
She turns out to be a marvelous spelling coach (Just like plants, words have roots, she tells Michael. Roots of
words can teach you to spell), and when Michael wins a red ribbon, the pictures show the whole group sharing his
victory with their own red ribbons—the Zen ties of the title. (Zentai is Japanese for the whole or the entire, as in all
of us together.) A subplot featuring Koo, Stillwater's nephew, drifts a bit; he's a cute little panda who punctuates
the action with Zen-influenced haiku (and allows Muth another pun: Hi, Koo!). Muth's brush is as sure as ever;
Stillwater's big, blunt paws and hunched-over listening posture are irresistible, and Miss Whitaker's delicate face
and snow-white hair beautifully counterpoint the vignettes of youthful play. From a religious tradition that makes
no theological demands and that will be unfamiliar to most readers, Stillwater offers a model of pure saintliness,
and children will instantly respond to him.
- From Publisher's Weekly
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