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Carolinda Clatter! By Mordicai Gerstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Children's Books of 2005 | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

...Mordicai Gerstein is even more exotic in The Mountains of Tibet (Harper & Row; $11.95). A woodcutter plans to travel the world, but he finds that he has grown old without ever leaving home. Yet when he dies, no tragedy attends his passing. A voice informs his spirit, "You may become part of the endless universe some call heaven, or you may live another life." He makes a delightful choice. Reincarnation would not seem a promising basis for a children's book, but Gerstein's fluid text and swirling, imaginative paintings are filled with light and reassurance. This is a work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Liberating Youthful Spirits | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

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