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Wabi Sabi

Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reibstein, Mark
Other Authors:	Young, Ed
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Japanese
Published:	New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Cats > Juvenile fiction. Aesthetics, Japanese > Juvenile fiction. Animals > Juvenile fiction. Japan > Juvenile fiction. Picture books.
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Summary:	Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.
Item Description:	Main text in English. Haikus in English and Japanese.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:	9780316118255 0316118257
Author Notes:	Mark Reibstein is an English teacher and writer who has lived in New York, California, Hawaii, Japan, and Thailand. Now Mark and his daughter live near San Francisco with their good friend Arlo, who is also a cat. This is his first picture book. Ed Young has illustrated for over 70 books and has been awarded the Caldecott Medal for Lon Po Po and the Caldecott Honors for Seven Blind Mice and The Emperor and the Kite . He lives in upstate New York with his daughters.