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Chrysanthemum (rpkg) 69 reviews
HarperTrophy, 1996
Kevin Henkes is Great
Do you what to buy a book you'll love to read? If you do, you should read Chrysanthemum By Kevin Henkes. Kevin Henkes is a good author. Chrysanthemum is a good children's book. If you are a mom you should read it to your child. They might love it like a favorite book. In the book Chrysanthemum loved her name until she went to school. The kids teased Chrysanthemum and said "you're named after a ...
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Crisantemo / Chrysanthemum1 review
Kevin Henkes
Everest Publishing, 1993
A great way to start the year
This is a great book to start off the school year. The childrenwill enjoy this wonderful story of a little mouse who loves her nameuntil she begins school and is made fun of for it. It is a great way to start discussions on diversity in the classroom, how to treat people equally and nicely, and except everyone and anyone for who they are.
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture 15 reviews
Ruth Benedict
Mariner Books, 1989
Briefing to American leadership during World War II
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword describes clearly and succinctly how the Japanese lived and thought in the 1930s and 1940s. The book developed from research into Japanese society conducted for the American leadership, civilian and military, during the Second World War.
Benedict describes social customs and traditions found in Japan at the outbreak of WWII. For instance, Japanese love bathing ...
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The Sign of the Chrysanthemum (Harper Trophy Book) 24 reviews
Katherine Paterson
HarperTrophy, 1988
A Pedal of the Chrysanthemun
The book starts off with a boy named Muna, the nameless one, whos mother just passed away. He now wants to look for his warrior father so that he would be able to be highly respected and change his name of his 14th birthday to a name more proper for a man, but the only thing he knows about his father is that he has a chrysanthemun tattoo and a he is a Heike warrior. I thought this book was ...
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Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne 27 reviews
Ben Hills
Tarcher, 2006
The story of a wasted life
Think of the word princess, and more often than not there's the image of a lovely young woman, dressed in a long flowing gown, usually with a pretty little crown or tiara on her head, and a smitten prince at her side. Rarely this romantic view ever goes on to reveal what happens when the celebrations are over and the reality of life settles in.
While the monarchies of the western world have ...
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The Chrysanthemum Palace11 reviews
Bruce Wagner
Simon & Schuster, 2006
Tell me why Clea
does herself in? Thad -- well. The world was not worse off for such a morose beast in it, but tell me why I care about these characters?
This is Gatsby in Hollywood, or Gatsby's grandchildren, mooning after what is lost, without anything elegaic or acknowledging in the doing of it. I didn't put the book down, but I didn't come away feeling I'd done anything more than survive Bruce Wagner's ...
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword 9 reviews
Ruth Benedict
Mariner Books, 2006
a must for the fans of Japan
In 1944, the Allies landed in Normandy, forcing the German army to fight on two fronts; on the Pacific the counteroffensive against Japan gave the Americans one victory after another. The war was almost finished and the new world order was only a matter of time.
The losers, Germany and Japan, not only had to be punished, but these nations needed to be revived and given a fresh start.
In this ...
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Red Chrysanthemum: A Thriller (Sano Ichiro Novels)16 reviews
Laura Joh Rowland
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006
Excellent - as usual
This book keeps up the tradition that Rowland has established in her previous books - an interesting mystery with a number of twists and turns - AND an excellent historical perspective [the women are a bit more bold than reality might have made possible - but it's encouraging to think that some women managed to assert their "independence"]. I'd recommend it!
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The Red Pony, Chrysanthemums and Flight (Cliffs Notes)
G. K. Carey
Cliffs Notes, 1978
This short novel concerns a boy's initiation into manhood. A gift of a horse brings with it many lessons for our young protagonist, and we watch as he wrestles with growing up.
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A Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-One Stories from the Japanese1 review
Lane Dunlop
North Point Pr, 1986
heartache
this is my introduction to japanese stories and also one of my favourite collections of short stories along with salinger's nine stories and schickler's kissing in manhattan. two of the great writers are here dazai and kawabata
it's a small book and it's nice 'cause you can put it in your pocket and take it with you.
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THE CHRYSANTHEMUM THRONE: A HISTORY OF THE EMPERORS OF JAPAN
Peter Martin
University of Hawai'i Press, 1997
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Chrysanthemum, Rose, and the Samurai2 reviews
Akahige Namban
Blue Moon Books, 1998
An very intricate erotic story of ancient Japan
I gave the book five stars for the Far Eastern story and the inclusion of intricate plots and subplots.... The main character, Rosamund is a missionary that finds herself shipwrecked in Japan and is promptly raped on the beach by the wandering young Samurai Goemon. She escapes an escape that she found disturbingly pleasurabe to be captured by a band of roving thugs who tatoo her and sell her to ...
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The Growing and Marketing of Fall Mums: How You Can Turn Your Backyard into a Money-Making, Growing Machine!
Don Langevin
Annedown Publishing, 1992
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The Chrysanthemum Throne: A History of the Emperors of Japan (Latitude 20 Books)
Peter Martin, James Melville
University of Hawaii Press, 1998
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The Chrysanthemums and Other Stories1 review
John Steinbeck
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995
Stories about supressed sexuality
This book contains three short stories, setup in early 19th century. All stories are set on the West and depict life on the farm(s). My favorite story was titled "Murder" and explains complicated relationship between husband and wife. Their marriage is based on physical attraction that man feels for a pretty young immigrant woman who is obedient on the outside. When he learns by chance that ...
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Goldfish and Chrysanthemums3 reviews
Andrea Cheng
Lee & Low Books, 2003
A Family Story
Nancy decides to make a garden in the backyard like the one that her grandmother remembers from China. The story is a quiet and loving family tale and the illustrations are muted green, orange, and gold. Karen Woodworth Roman www.librarians.info
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