Daisaku Ikeda, Author, Geraldine McCaughrean, Translator, Brian Wildsmith, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-81965-3
Winter comes early and with a bitter vengeance to the Snow Country. For young Mariko and her brother Kazuo, the harsh season signals the annual departure of their fisherman father, who must travel inland to find work until spring. But the advent of...
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Daisaku Ikeda, Author, Geraldine McCaughrean, Translator, Brian Wildsmith, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-83620-9
This flight of fancy from frequent collaborators Ikeda and Wildsmith ( The Snow Country Prince ; The Cherry Tree ) combines a mystical moonlit journey with a message about inner beauty. One night the Great Moon Rabbit leaps from the sky and lands in
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Daisaku Ikeda, Author, Geraldine McCaughrean, Translator, Brian Wildsnith, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-82669-9
Hope springs eternal--even in the dark aftermath of war--as seen in this picture book. After bombs have destroyed their Japanese village and killed their father, Taichi and Yumiko's broken-hearted mother must go to town and earn money shining shoes.
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Daisaku Ikeda, Author, Burton Watson, Translator Middleway Press $14.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-9779245-3-0
Drawing on Japanese scholarship as well as close reading of Buddhist scriptures, Ikeda analyzes how a movement in turmoil after the death of the Buddha began to codify its teachings and split into two streams, the Theravada (""Teaching of the Elders"
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