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A Geisel Honor–winning series! Join Gigi as she tries natto, a
traditional Japanese food, in this exciting and engaging Level
Three I Can Read book by acclaimed author and illustrator Melissa
Iwai. Intergenerational relationships, Japanese culture, and social
and emotional learning are highlighted in this sweet biracial
story, perfect for sharing with children 3 to 6. Ohayo! It’s
breakfast time and Gigi can’t wait to make her favorite
meal—Peanut Butter Toast. Yummy! But Ojiji doesn’t like peanut
butter. How can anyone NOT like peanut butter? Ojiji prefers
Japanese foods—like natto, made from fermented soybeans. Will
Gigi learn to love a new breakfast treat? This story highlights the
close relationship of Gigi and her grandfather and the importance
of trying new things! This exciting and engaging I Can Read series
is brought to you by author-illustrator Melissa Iwai, whose popular
books include Soup Day and Dumplings for Lili.
Gigi and Ojij: Food for Thought is a Level Three I Can Read
book. Level 3 includes many fun subjects kids love to read
about on their own. Themes include friendship, adventure,
historical fiction, and science. Level 3 books are written for
early independent readers. They include some challenging words and
more complex themes and stories. The story contains several
Japanese words and a glossary of definitions. Praise for Gigi and
Ojiji: "Gigi crafts her Japanese American identity in this
Âenchanting early reader. The cuteness, inclusivity, and
cross-cultural problem-solving represented will have young
Âreaders coming back again and again. A must-buy." —School
Library Journal (starred review) "The text is well supported
by the endearing illustrations, which capture all of Gigi’s big
emotions and depict her as a biracial child, with a white father
and Japanese mother." —Booklist (starred review) "An
affirming option in the quickly diversifying field of early-reader
books." —Kirkus A 2023 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor title El dÃa
de los niños, el dÃa de los libros selection 2023 ALSC Notable
2023 CBC Teacher and Librarian Favorites Award 2023 A Bank Street
Best Children's Book of the Year in the 5-9 beginning reader
category (2023)
Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular
forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets
and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players.
However, Bunraku lacks scholarship dedicated to translating not
only the language but also cultural barriers of this work. In this
book, Odanaka and Iwai tackle the wealth of bunraku plays
underrepresented in English through rexamining their siginifcance
on a global scale. Little is written on the fact that bunraku
theatre, despites its elegant figures of puppets and exotic
stories, was often made as a place to manifest the political
concerns of playwrights in the 18th century, hence a reflection of
the audience's expectation that could not have materialized outside
the theatre. Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century aims to
make bunraku texts readable for those who are interested in the
political and cultural implications of this revered theatre
tradition.
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How This Book Got Red
Melissa Iwai; Margaret Chiu Greanias
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R210
R164
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None of the panda books are ever about red pandas! Red wants to
change that. When Red discovers a new book about pandas, she can't
wait to read it! Except it's about only one kind of panda, and red
pandas are completely left out. Red never gets to read stories
about pandas like herself! So she decides to take matters into her
own paws and write her own book. But when Red looks around, it
seems like the only kind of pandas the world sees are the black and
white kind. Will anyone want to read about red pandas? It's up to
Red to finish her story and find out...
Gigi wants to go by something besides her baby name-but her full
name, Geraldine, is too long to write and Hanako, her middle name,
doesn't feel quite right. Will Gigi find the perfect name? This
exciting new I Can Read series is brought to you by
author-illustrator Melissa Iwai, whose popular books include Soup
Day and Dumplings for Lili. Gigi and Ojiji: What's Iin a Name? is a
Level Three I Can Read book. Level 3 includes many fun subjects
kids love to read about on their own. Themes include friendship,
adventure, historical fiction, and science. Level 3 books are
written for early independent readers. They include some
challenging words and more complex themes and stories. The story
contains several Japanese words and a glossary of definitions.
Praise for Gigi and Ojiji: "Gigi crafts her Japanese American
identity in this enchanting early reader. The cuteness,
inclusivity, and cross-cultural problem-solving represented will
have young readers coming back again and again. A must-buy."
-School Library Journal (starred review) "The text is well
supported by the endearing illustrations, which capture all of
Gigi's big emotions and depict her as a biracial child, with a
white father and Japanese mother." -Booklist (starred review) "An
affirming option in the quickly diversifying field of early-reader
books." -Kirkus
Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular
forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets
and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players.
However, Bunraku lacks scholarship dedicated to translating not
only the language but also cultural barriers of this work. In this
book, Odanaka and Iwai tackle the wealth of bunraku plays
underrepresented in English through rexamining their siginifcance
on a global scale. Little is written on the fact that bunraku
theatre, despites its elegant figures of puppets and exotic
stories, was often made as a place to manifest the political
concerns of playwrights in the 18th century, hence a reflection of
the audience's expectation that could not have materialized outside
the theatre. Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century aims to
make bunraku texts readable for those who are interested in the
political and cultural implications of this revered theatre
tradition.
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Soup Day (Paperback)
Melissa Iwai
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R300
R238
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Melissa Iwai's Soup Day celebrates the importance of making a
nutritious meal and sharing in the process as a family. On a cold,
snowy day, a young girl and her mother shop to buy ingredients for
vegetable soup. At home, they work together--step by step--to
prepare the meal. While the soup is cooking, they spend the time
playing games and reading. Before long, Daddy's home and the family
sits down to enjoy a home made dinner. A Christy Ottaviano Book
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Manga for Success Boxed Set
Masumi Tani, Takayuki Kito, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Takashi Yasuda, Koji Kuze, …
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R2,299
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Learn skills that will last a lifetime with Manga for Success!
The Manga for Success series combines highly visual
Manga stories with simple, clear explanations of the most important
business and self-help concepts every young career professional
needs to know to step up, stand out, and succeed. Titles
include: The Psychology of Personal Growth and Better Relationships
Business Problem-Solving and Strategy Marketing Leading Teams and
Meetings Managing Change Resilience, Confidence, and Positive
Thinking Applicable in both business and personal life, these books
have the potential to change your life for the better―and
you’ll have fun reading it. Find out why the Manga For
Success series―now available in English for the first
time―is so popular in Japan, Korea, and beyond.
Die neue Manga-Serie bei Wiley: Persönliches Wachstum und bessere
Beziehungen: Dieser Manga for Success zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie Ihren
persönlichen Erfolg steigern und Ihre Beziehungen zu anderen
Menschen stärken. Die Geschichte handelt von Yukari, eine
28-jährige Bereichsleiterin einer Süßwarenkette. Sie ist
frustriert, dass die Filialleiter in ihrem Bereich ihre Anweisungen
nicht befolgen. In ihren Gesprächen mit den Filialleitern bringt
sie ihre Besorgnis zum Ausdruck, stößt aber auf Widerstand, was
zu einem Rückgang der Verkaufszahlen in den Filialen führt.
Zufällig trifft sie auf den Geist des Psychologen Alfred Adler,
der ihr verschiedene Ratschläge und Strategien gibt. Auf der
Grundlage der Tiefenpsychologie nach Adler verändert sie ihre
Sicht der Dinge und nach und nach die Art und Weise, wie sie mit
ihren Managern und ihrem Vorgesetzten umgeht. Infolgedessen
verbessert sich ihre Kommunikation mit ihren Managern und es
entsteht ein Vertrauensverhältnis - und Yukaris Karriere beginnt
sich endlich reibungslos zu entwickeln. Konzepte und Theorien in
diesem Manga: - Eine Einführung in die kraftvollen Prinzipien der
Psychologie nach Adler für persönlichen Erfolg sowie Erfolg in
Beziehungen und im Alltag. - Sie erhalten die Energie,
Schwierigkeiten zu überwinden, hören auf, falsche Annahmen über
Menschen zu treffen, und lernen, echte Empathie zu zeigen. -
Einfaches Verständnis der wirkungsvollen Prinzipien für den
Beziehungserfolg, im Manga-Stil
On a cold, snowy day, a young girl and her mother shop to buy
ingredients for vegetable soup. At home, they work together--step
by step--to prepare the meal. While the soup is cooking, they spend
the time playing games and reading. Before long, Daddy's home and
the family sits down to enjoy a home made dinner. This book
celebrates the importance of making a nutritious meal and sharing
in the process.
The falling cat is an interesting theme to pursue, in which
geometry, mechanics, and control are in action together. As is well
known, cats can almost always land on their feet when tossed into
the air in an upside-down attitude. If cats are not given a
non-vanishing angular momentum at an initial instant, they cannot
rotate during their motion, and the motion they can make in the air
is vibration only. However, cats accomplish a half turn without
rotation when landing on their feet. In order to solve this
apparent mystery, one needs to thoroughly understand rotations and
vibrations. The connection theory in differential geometry can
provide rigorous definitions of rotation and vibration for
many-body systems. Deformable bodies of cats are not easy to treat
mechanically. A feasible way to approach the question of the
falling cat is to start with many-body systems and then proceed to
rigid bodies and, further, to jointed rigid bodies, which can
approximate the body of a cat. In this book, the connection theory
is applied first to a many-body system to show that vibrational
motions of the many-body system can result in rotations without
performing rotational motions and then to the cat model consisting
of jointed rigid bodies. On the basis of this geometric setting,
mechanics of many-body systems and of jointed rigid bodies must be
set up. In order to take into account the fact that cats can deform
their bodies, three torque inputs which may give a twist to the cat
model are applied as control inputs under the condition of the
vanishing angular momentum. Then, a control is designed according
to the port-controlled Hamiltonian method for the model cat to
perform a half turn and to halt the motion upon landing. The book
also gives a brief review of control systems through simple
examples to explain the role of control inputs.
This edited volume approaches the life experiences and well-being
of Japanese people from an empirical perspective. It explores the
current trend of happiness among Japanese over time and examines
the association of income, lifestyle, and perceived life conditions
using modern econometric models with supplementary qualitative
observations. Issues relating to ageing, gender, household division
of labour, and emigration are also examined to provide a wide scope
of results based on both survey and field methods for culturally
sensitive researchers. Going beyond the conventional cultural
interpretation of the uniqueness of the Japanese case, this book
provides timely, empirical evidence for understanding how the
various social groups comprising the Japanese population have
enjoyed a better quality of life, while some groups are very
dissatisfied with social arrangements and have elected to emigrate.
The book is a pioneering endeavour to reveal the detailed structure
of quality of life and well-being in Japanese society.
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Gigi and Ojiji (Paperback)
Melissa Iwai; Illustrated by Melissa Iwai
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R126
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"Gigi crafts her Japanese American identity in this enchanting
early reader. The cuteness, inclusivity, and cross-cultural
problem-solving represented will have young readers coming back
again and again. A must-buy." -School Library Journal (starred
review) Gigi, a biracial six-year-old girl, learns about her
Japanese culture from her grandfather when he comes to visit.
Perfect for social emotional learning. Gigi can't wait for her
Ojiji-Japanese grandpa-to move in. Gigi plans lots of things to do
with him, like playing tag, reading books, and teaching Roscoe, the
family dog, new tricks. But her plans don't work out quite the way
she'd hoped. And her grandpa doesn't seem to like Roscoe. Will Gigi
find a way to connect with her Ojiji? This exciting new I Can Read
series is brought to you by author-illustrator Melissa Iwai, whose
popular books include Soup Day and Dumplings for Lili. Gigi and
Ojiji is a Level Three I Can Read book. Level 3 includes many fun
subjects kids love to read about on their own. Themes include
friendship, adventure, historical fiction, and science. Level 3
books are written for early independent readers. They include some
challenging words and more complex themes and stories. The story
contains several Japanese words and a glossary of definitions and
pronunciations. "The text is well supported by the endearing
illustrations, which capture all of Gigi's big emotions and depict
her as a biracial child, with a white father and Japanese mother."
-Booklist (starred review) "An affirming option in the quickly
diversifying field of early-reader books." -Kirkus
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Just Like Me (Hardcover)
Louise Gooding; Illustrated by Melissa Iwai, Caterina Delli Carri, Cathyhookey Cathyhookey, Angel Chang
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R319
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An anthology of 40 inspirational figures who are neurologically or physically diverse.
The world is full of people who are a little different. Our uniqueness makes us who we are. We are all 'different; not less'.
This is a collection of the true stories of 40 inspirational figures from around the world, all of whom are physically or neurologically diverse. Each story includes struggles and triumphs, a motivational quote and information on each condition.
Reflective of our diverse society, this book features Simone Biles, Selena Gomez, Temple Grandin, Warwick Davies, Daniel Radcliffe, Stephen Hawking, Greta Thunberg and many more.
Get ready for a ride through the alphabet at a busy construction
site. There's a big yellow Bulldozer, a tall shiny Crane, and a
rusty red Dump truck - and the construction crew is hard at work.
But what are they building? Melissa Iwai's bright, bold
illustrations are a perfect match to June Sobel's irresistible
rhyming text. Join the excitement as the workers build, scoop, and
dig their way from A to Z in this sturdy board book.
This step-by-step bonsai book shows you how to craft super mini
bonsai--the smallest form of bonsai! Miniature Bonsai reveals the
Japanese art of super-mini bonsai gardening. As rewarding as
full-scale bonsai cultivation is, mini bonsai is affordable,
straightforward to learn and kind to your busy schedule. It's a
complete gardening experience--a plant raised from seed or cutting,
carefully potted, grown and maintained over time--a world of green
in a pot no bigger than a demitasse or a thimble. From mixing the
right growing medium to choosing the perfect pot to displaying your
mini bonsai, this Japanese gardening book gives you basic
techniques and valuable tips to help you grow miniature: flowering
trees pines maples oaks junipers and other varieties of tiny trees
and potted plants that are readily available and last for years
With Miniature Bonsai you'll learn how to: Select plants that
thrive as mini bonsai Work with seeds and small cuttings Match the
right plant to the right pot Buy and prepare the growing medium
Maintain and drain your miniature bonsai Display and enjoy your
prized bonsai plants And much more! A pleasant pastime, a perfect
gift, a beautiful addition to spaces small and large--Miniature
Bonsai will show you how to make it happen.
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Gigi and Ojiji (Hardcover)
Melissa Iwai; Illustrated by Melissa Iwai
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R467
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Bringing the rich Japanese Shinto artistic tradition to life, this
handsome volume explores the significance of calligraphy, painting,
sculpture, and the decorative arts within traditional kami
veneration ceremonies A central feature of Japanese culture for
many centuries, the veneration of kami deities-a practice often
referred to as Shinto-has been a driving force behind a broad swath
of visual art. Focusing on the Heian period (795-1185) through the
Edo period (1615-1868), this generously illustrated volume brings
the rich Shinto artistic tradition to life through works of
calligraphy, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts. Thematic
essays authored by both American and Japanese scholars explore
different dimensions of kami veneration and examine the
significance of these objects-many of which have never been seen
outside of Japan-in Shinto ceremonies.
This edited volume approaches the life experiences and well-being
of Japanese people from an empirical perspective. It explores the
current trend of happiness among Japanese over time and examines
the association of income, lifestyle, and perceived life conditions
using modern econometric models with supplementary qualitative
observations. Issues relating to ageing, gender, household division
of labour, and emigration are also examined to provide a wide scope
of results based on both survey and field methods for culturally
sensitive researchers. Going beyond the conventional cultural
interpretation of the uniqueness of the Japanese case, this book
provides timely, empirical evidence for understanding how the
various social groups comprising the Japanese population have
enjoyed a better quality of life, while some groups are very
dissatisfied with social arrangements and have elected to emigrate.
The book is a pioneering endeavour to reveal the detailed structure
of quality of life and well-being in Japanese society.
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