
WABI SABI
By Mark Reibstein. Illustrated by Ed Young
Unpaged. Little, Brown & Company. $16.99. (Ages 3 to 6)
As Reibstein puts it: “Wabi sabi is a way of seeing the world that is at the heart of Japanese culture. It finds beauty and harmony in what is simple, imperfect, natural, modest and mysterious. . . . It may best be understood as a feeling, rather than as an idea.” Remarkably, Reibstein and Young capture the essence of all of this with clarity, elegance and a kind of indirection that seems intrinsic to the subject.
Read the review in the New York Times.
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