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Sky Sweeper

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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 40
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-374-37007-7
  • EAN
  • 9780374370077
  • Settings
  • Japan
  • Genres
  • childrens, japan
  • Release date
  • 2007