Tuesday, November 25th: Artist Katie Yamasaki on Soichiro Honda at Book Beat
Join us Tuesday, November 25th from 7:00 -8:30 PM at the Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield in Oak Park, for a presentation by artist Katie Yamasaki on her first book about the Japanese motorcycle, automotive inventor and entrepreneur Soichiro Honda. Honda: The Boy Who Dreamed of Cars is a brightly illustrated, imaginative and educational book about the power of dreams and invention for grades 1-6. Please call 248-968-1190 for more information.
One day in 1914 when Soichiro Honda was seven years old, an astonishing, moving dust cloud appeared in his small Japanese town. The cause was a leaky, noisy automobile—the first the boy had ever seen. At that moment Honda fell in love with cars, and a dream took hold. He would one day make them himself.
"This interesting book offers children a unique opportunity to learn more about the person behind the household name "Honda." Along the way, teachers and parents can use examples from Soichiro Honda's story to reinforce some useful lessons in economics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, and competition. "Honda: The Boy Who Dreamed of Cars" will appeal to readers who enjoy carefully-illustrated picture books that feature informative biographies of people we otherwise may not know much about." -- Yana Rodgers, Rutgers University
"Yamasaki helps to keep the tone light with fanciful painted illustrations that depict her subject set amid flying car parts and streams of tiny automobiles and motorcycles. Honda is neatly portrayed as someone who was smart enough both to stay in touch with his employees . . . and take early retirement. Though a demanding boss, Honda was not so much a driven, Olympian business leader, but rather a human being who found his bliss early on and stuck with it through thick and thin." --Booklist
"Yamasaki’s detailed and whimsical acrylics add zest to the proceedings. A worthwhile introduction to a neglected subject."--Kirkus
"It is so vital that educators and parents catch the imagination of young people in the hope that some of our most talented young people opt for studying the applied sciences and grow up to become part of the planet's technology salvation. Honda is just the sort of book that can help catch these imaginations." --Richie's Picks Book Blog
"Yamasaki’s creative composition makes the pictures interesting and dynamic." School Library Journal
Katie Yamasaki grew up in the Detroit area, earned her BA from Earlham college and received an MFA in 2003 from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, teaching art and specializing in mural painting.
Book Beat Reading Group Discussion Monday November 24th at Goldfish Tea House:
The Book Beat reading group selection for November/December is Under the Glacier by Nobel Laureate Halldor Laxness » We will meet Monday, November 24th at 7:00 PM at the Goldfish Tea House located at 117 West 4th Street in downtown Royal Oak, just west of Main Street.
Please note: our meeting date was moved to Monday to accommodate Thanksgiving holiday schedules. This will be the last reading group meeting of 2008.
Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snaefells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress. The introduction by Susan Sontag is worth the price of admission. All reading group books are discounted 15%.
"Laxness is a beacon in twentieth-century literature, a writer of splendid originality, wit, and feeling." --Alice Munro
"The qualities of the sagas pervade his writing, and particularly a kind of humor — oblique, stylized and childlike — that can be found in no other contemporary writer." -- The Atlantic Monthly
Book Beat Days are Here! Help Support the Temple Emanu-El Library and Celebrate Jewish Book Month November 1st - 30th. Mention Temple Emanu-El when you purchase books at Book Beat during the month of November and the Temple Emanu-El Library receives 20% of your total purchase. There are four whole weeks to shop
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Suport Detroit's PuppetART Center located in Detroit’s Theater District, just a few blocks from the Michigan Opera Theater, Music Hall and the Gem and Century Theaters. The Center includes an intimate 70-person theater, a museum that accommodates a growing collection of puppets and a studio featuring various workshops.The Japanese classic The Crane Maiden will be performed every Saturday, November 8,15, 22 and 29 at 2:00 PM. PuppetART is located at 25 East Grand River Ave. - Detroit MI. - 48226 - 313.961.7777 What an amazing place!
ARTISTS ALERT! Kresge Arts in Detroit is a three-part effort designed to support and develop individual artists, arts and cultural organizations and arts-infrastructure groups in metropolitan Detroit's Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Kresge Arts in Detroit represents one of five strategic objectives set forth in the foundation's Detroit Program, a comprehensive community-development effort to strengthen the long-term economic, social and cultural fabric of the city and surrounding region.
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