![]() The panda chooses an appropriate Zen fable for each child, illustrated with rough-edged, Chinese-style brush-and-ink paintings on duotone pages, to play up the story-within-a-story structure. Speaking "with a slight panda accent," he introduces himself as Stillwater, and charms Addy and Michael though Karl, the youngest, is still "shy around bears he know." Each day one of the children goes to visit Stillwater, revealing something of him- or herself. Three siblings befriend a giant panda when his red umbrella blows into their yard. He frames the trio of tales within the context of a suburban household. ![]() Muth, who has retold traditional stories such as Stone Soup and Tolstoy's The Three Questions, and played up their spiritual elements with his elegant watercolors, here introduces three Zen stories from Japan. ![]()
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