This was a tiny, very short Newbery award winner about a poor Japanese painter who got a chance to paint the Buddha for his town's temple. As he paints, he thinks about all of the stories about the Buddha he knows. I thought the stories about the Buddha were incorporated very smoothly and I enjoyed learning more about the Buddha and his life. But once again, I don't see any child reading this and enjoying it. I'm sure there are some out there who would want to read it--maybe I would have as a kid. But only if I'd accidentally stumbled across it and started reading it and gotten sucked in without anyone telling me what it was about. I would have never chosen to read it.
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