Customer Reviews

Buddha Stories

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An excellent book. Most of the stories have a theme of wonderful compassion and it is set out in such way that children are encouraged to think about what is really of value in life. We borrowed this book from the library many times.

My five year old son loves listening to these stories. I have long been looking for books that help children understand moral values. This is my favorite Demi book.

This is an excellent collection of about 10 jataka tales of Buddha's past lifetime, in about one page per story. Younger children, however may not enjoy reading the book on their own because of the color illustration quality, i.e., light gold on black paper.

While its a beautiful idea to make the book imitate the gold text and indigo rice paper of the Buddhist sutra that was the world's first printed book, the result is barely usable.

The problem is that the gold ink of the text and illustrations do not have enough contrast against the indigo background that they are printed on. So its very difficult to read the book and its very difficult to look at the pictures, which means the book fails my purpose of buying it.

This is sad because I really would like some Buddhist books for children. I do hope the author/illustrator tries again, but this time with the audience in mind instead of the desire to create a beautiful object.

A recent smart classroom of mine had some trouble figuring out the morals to the story but this is a good thing!