Zen Ghosts (A Stillwater and Friends Book)

Good book! This book did leave us with a lot of unanswered questions.......more

This story whisps into your bones like a ghost. It is a Zen Koan story to make you intuitively come up with an answer. It is set at Halloween with all the fun of Halloween. The ghost is a giant panda. The art is pastels and film-y like a dream. I enjoyed this story and the question it posed. Which m......more

Well, I do think that Muth really stretches the limits (of understanding?) with his children’s picture books, but I do like them. I liked this one very much, although the Halloween story combined with the Buddhist koan was a peculiar combination for me. For school aged children, I think this book coul......more

Oh. My. God.......more

The wonderful Stillwater the panda returns for a third time with another picture book filled with Zen. In this book, Stillwater spends time with the children as they prepare to go trick-or-treating. Then after they are finished, he brings them to a place where a panda tells them the story of Senjo.......more