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...choy into a fish. Others are more elaborate, as when he shapes bananas into the heads of giraffes, then a zebra and, yes, an airplane. The book has five sections in which Freymann's fancies illustrate shapes, colors, numbers, letters and opposites. His inventiveness never flags, nor will the reader's delight. Caution to parents: This book may give kids ideas about what to do with dinner besides eating...
Postmodernism comes to kid lit! But to children it will seem more like good subversive fun. The conceit is that the book's illustrator, Ned--who is often depicted hard at work--can't paint fast enough to stay ahead of the reader. So a cartoon stand-in for Lendler keeps turning up to urge the reader to slow down for Ned's sake and to please, please not turn the page yet. Now, what youngster can resist defying such a request? The narrative, a standard knight-rescuing-an-imprisoned-princess tale, unravels ridiculously as the overwhelmed Ned is forced...
...been in Uganda and this person might have been in Sierra Leone, and this person might have been in Sri Lanka, and this person might have been in Cambodia, but I'm trying to put all of these experiences into one character that will at least speak to the reader...
...BETTER: Both a coming-of-age love story and a treatise on geisha manners and mores, the very long Arthur Golden book reveled in its very novelness. Fiction is the ideal medium for a life story. It can span generations and take lots of scenic detours, and the reader will usually stay along for the ride. A movie has to keep on truckin' down the narrative highway...
...Leading by Example In addition to expressing admiration for the 18 Global Health heroes that TIME profiled [Nov. 7], readers were impressed by the leadership of celebrities in the campaign to improve health care in developing countries. A Michigan reader singled out Bill Gates: "Here is a man brought up with middle-class values, and he chooses to spend his wealth not nurturing selfish dreams and desires but working to ensure that even the poorest people will have their basic medical needs met." Wrote a Seoul reader: "Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates are remarkable individuals with a clear vision...