Author: Jon J Muth
Illustrator: Jon J Muth
Title: Zen Shorts
Genre: Children’s picture book,
Sub genre: Storytelling/ Brothers and sisters
Theme: Fiction
Primary and secondary characters: Michael, Karl, Addy, Stillwater
Date: 2005
Award: Caldecott Award Winner
Publisher Company: Scholastic Press
Brief summary on how to use for students: The students will be able to learn about good luck and bad luck and how it is all mixed up. You never know what will happen next. Stillwater told stories to help children appreciate things.
Summary: Zen Shorts are short mediation ideas to puzzle over told which hone our ability to act with intuition. Stillwater is a panda who moves into Addy, Michael, and Karl’s neighborhood and tells them the most amazing stories. He tells Addy of a poor man who gives gifts to a robber. Michael a farmer who knows that luck can be neither judged nor predicted. Stillwater tells Karl the tale of a monk who carries the weight of a burden long past. These Zen stories fill the kids with enlightenment and love.
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