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CKwasniewski
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Posted: July 30 2007 at 10:18am | IP Logged Quote CKwasniewski

Dear Ladies,
I am contemplating buying this book about Basho. However it is very expensive, even used ($10). I would like to use it with my two dcs (5 and 7) for FIAR/Tour the continents and I am wondering whether its worth buying or just paying $1.50 to get it through interlibrary loan. (I can get Tim Myer's Basho and the Fox at my library.) I am afraid the idea of haiku is going to be way over their heads!

Anyone who has or has used this book, I'd love to have your thoughts!
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Posted: Aug 01 2007 at 10:35pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm

It is one of my all-time favorites!I would have it on my "must haves" list, for sure.

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Posted: Aug 02 2007 at 10:08am | IP Logged Quote CKwasniewski

Thanks for this input Theresa. I'll keep it on my list of "to buy" and see when we can squeeze it in!

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Posted: Jan 30 2008 at 9:57am | IP Logged Quote happymama

I had gotten this book, but was saving it until my oldest was a bit older... but lo & behold, the most recent National Geographic magazine we got had a beautiful spread all about Basho, including a modern-day map with his journeys marked, and examples of the haikus written in Japanese. I removed these pages from the magazine & will laminate them & keep them with the book - which I'll read to my son soon!
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Posted: Jan 30 2008 at 10:24am | IP Logged Quote CKwasniewski

Thank you for this tip!
I will look for it!

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Posted: Jan 30 2008 at 10:47am | IP Logged Quote cathhomeschool

I am so glad that this came up! I was looking through FIAR yesterday trying to pick some books for the next few weeks. I saw Grass Sandals and (as in the past), thought, "We'll look at that one in the spring." But I have never managed to actually get to it. I am definitely putting this on the list for early March (and by then, I should be able to check out the National Geographic from the library too). I've never read this book!

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CK,

Maybe you've already used these titles, but A Pair of Red Clogs (Volume I) and Grandfather's Journey (Volume I) are also set in Japan. Homeschool Share has lessons for Little Oh and Crow Boy (both set in Japan).

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Thanks for the links.
I didn't know about Crow Boy. I will check it out from the library.

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I enjoyed this book and the illustrations by Demi are just gorgeous but it was a little over my kids' heads at 8 and 6. I think that they will enjoy it as they get older.

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happymama wrote:
... but lo & behold, the most recent National Geographic magazine we got had a beautiful spread all about Basho, including a modern-day map with his journeys marked, and examples of the haikus written in Japanese.


Thanks for the heads up on the NG magazine. My dad just got us a subscription for Christmas and the Jan. and Feb. issues arrived last week. I have to admit I hadn't looked at it closely at all (though I read the "Drying of the West" article). We did a little Haiku study with poetry about two years ago so time for a revisit. In addition to Grass Sandals and Tim Myer's Basho and the Fox, Tim Myer also has Basho and the River Stones.

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Posted: Jan 31 2008 at 12:10pm | IP Logged Quote CKwasniewski

We really liked Basho and the Fox.

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