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By: Aline Pereira,
on 8/10/2009
Blog: PaperTigers (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Eventful World, Reading the World, Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian literature, The Happiness of Kati, Richard Lewis, Jane Vejjajiva, The Flame Tree, The Tiger's Treasures, "One Shot: Southeast Asia" Blog Tour, Margaret Lim, Shamini Flint, The Bee Tree, The Killing Sea, Add a tag
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By: Marjorie Coughlan,
on 4/7/2015
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JacketFlap tags: Charlesbridge Publishing, Naomi's Tree, Harcourt Brace, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Anouck Boisrobert, Louis Rigaud, In the Forest, MWD article, Little Brown & Co., MWD theme - Trees, 'Branching Across the World: Trees in Multicultural Children's Literature, children's books about trees, Dominique Clément, Franck Prévot, Lee & Low (US), Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya, Seeds of Change: Wangari’s Gift to the World, Wangari Maathai: The Woman who Planted Millions of Trees, Daryl Champion, Dionne Champion, Sherice Grant, The Spirit of the Baobab Tree, Amoako and the Forest, Kathy Knowles, A Tree in My Village, Ancient Ones: The World of the Old Growth Douglas Fir, and the Mangrove Tangle, Anna Sixkiller Huckaby, Barbara Bash, CitizenKid series, Deborah Cowley, Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus, Diana Cohn, Gibbs M Smith, In the Heart of the Village: The World of the Indian Banyan, Kids Can Press (Canada), Margot Thompson, Non-fiction children's books about trees, Paritosh Sen, Paul Mirocha, Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, Sierra Club Books, Sierra Club Tree Tales, Sophie Strady, Stephen Buchmann, The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rainforest, Tree of Life: The Incredible Biodiversity of Life on Earth, Tree of Life: The World of the African Baobab, Venantius J. Pinto, Xlibris Corp., Books, Picture Books, Articles, Non-Fiction, Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux, Scholastic, Kids Can Press, Donna Jo Napoli, Harcourt Children's Books, Kadir Nelson, Aurélia Fronty, The Sea, Ruth Ohi, Jeannine Atkins, Joy Kogawa, James Rumford, Aani and the Tree Huggers, Jeanette Winter, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Simon & Schuster, Claire A. Nivola, Planting the Trees of Kenya, Sequoyah, Tate Publishing, Lynne Cherry, The Bee Tree, Rochelle Strauss, Osu Children's Library Fund, Cinco Puntos Press, Jen Cullerton Johnson, the Storm, Sonia Lynn Sadler, Tulika Books, Vinod Lal Heera Eshwer, Let's Plant Trees, Add a tag
By: Aline Pereira,
on 8/10/2009
Blog: PaperTigers (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Eventful World, Reading the World, Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian literature, The Happiness of Kati, Richard Lewis, Jane Vejjajiva, The Flame Tree, The Tiger's Treasures, "One Shot: Southeast Asia" Blog Tour, Margaret Lim, Shamini Flint, The Bee Tree, The Killing Sea, Add a tag
Southeast Asia’s literature is as rich and diverse as the region itself, but unfortunately, there’s still a derth of books for children by Southeast Asian authors translated into English. Even when they are written in English by Southeast Asian writers, such as the books by Singaporean Shamini Flint and Malaysian Margaret Lim), they rarely find their way into the US or other English speaking countries. It’s fairly easy to find factual books or folktale retellings, but the majority of the books in English related to the region are written by European or American authors.
PaperTigers this week joins many other bloggers on a virtual tour of children’s literature from/about Southeast Asia by pointing readers to reviews and blog posts written by our team:
Former PaperTigers blog contributor Janet Brown has looked closely at the book Happiness of Kati, by Thai writer Jane Vejjajiva. Aimed at 12+ year-olds, the book was the first children’s book to win the S.E.A. Write Award, given to the best literature by Southeast Asians. Read Janet’s three posts about the book (1, 2, 3), as she gets deeper into the beautifully layered story of a Thai girl and her family. And for an interesting look on the world of children’s books in Thailand, read the transcript of a paper by Jane Vejjajiva, presented at the IBBY Congress, in 2008.
Reviewed by Charlotte, The Killing Sea (Simon & Schuster) by lifelong Bali resident Richard Lewis is a fictionalized account of the impact of the 2004 Tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia, particularly in the lives of two teenagers caught up in the tragedy. Lewis’ The Flame Tree, also set in Indonesia in post 9/11, is another important title, as it helps dispel stereotypes, especially common since then, about the Islamic world.
, written by Stephen Buchmann and Diana Cohn, illustrated by Paul Mirocha (Cinco Puntos), is a coming-of-age story that blends “myth, geography, and harvest and Islamic rituals to create a rich tapestry of multicultural experiences”.The round-up of the Southeast Asia blog tour, with links to all participating posts, will be posted at Chasing Ray on Wednesday, 08/12 (which means bloggers still have time to send in their posts!). We are looking forward to finding out what others have contributed to the feast!
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