{"id":4872,"date":"2006-10-31T22:46:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T22:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/book-corner.html"},"modified":"2006-10-31T22:46:39","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T22:46:39","slug":"book-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/10\/book-corner.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;before they get returned to the library and I forget about them. Although this first one might get purchased at some point:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0823417387.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V63332688_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0823417387.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V63332688_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book was published this summer &#8211; it is really lovely, and I&#8217;m sort of surprised no one thought of doing this before &#8211; a collection of legends from the Texas missions. Kimmel culled Adina de Zavala&#8217;s classic collection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Missions-Recovering-Hispanic-Literary-Heritage\/dp\/155885181X\/ref=cm_lm_fullview_prod_16\/002-3786766-0449652\">History and Legends of the Alamo and Other Missions in and around San Antonio<\/a> for the 6 stories he retells and that are wonderfully illustrated&nbsp; by Susan Guevara. Not <em>exactly <\/em>5-year old friendly &#8211; I only read Joseph a couple &#8211; most of the others wouldn&#8217;t interest him too much, and there&#8217;s only one picture per story &#8211; Joseph loves to examine the pictures in books carefully, searching out suprising details and funny jokes.&nbsp; I&#8217;d say this was more an 8 and up kind of book.&nbsp; Up to your age, perhaps?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/1580131492.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V59576243_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/1580131492.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V59576243_.jpg\" width=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This one <em>was <\/em>5-year old friendly. Short and gentle, woven in a Jewish framework, a simple book about the &quot;first gift&quot; parents give their children &#8211; a name. It begins with David, then jumps back to Adam, who was named by God and given the job of naming the animals, and then forward to the child today &#8211; the child reading the book, children around the world, and then another, modern child, also named David. It could probably be a bit longer, but we liked it. Finding &quot;Joseph&quot; in the text &#8211; always a big thrill &#8211; probably contributed a great deal to that, I&#8217;ll admit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;before they get returned to the library and I forget about them. Although this first one might get purchased at some point: This book was published this summer &#8211; it is really lovely, and I&#8217;m sort of surprised no one thought of doing this before &#8211; a collection of legends from the Texas missions. 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