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ON THE BOOK TRAIL

Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Feb 5, 2004
"The Pig Scrolls," "Blood Red Horse"
"The Pig Scrolls," Paul Shipton, Puffin Books; March 2004; 224 pp. Author Paul Shipton warns us at the outset of his (sort of) Greek-style epic that though every effort was made to ensure the accuracy of the material, the Great Library of Alexandria was closed on the Tuesday afternoon he tried to go there. (Err, actually, it's been closed 24/7 since before Christ was born, so our author was about two millennia too late.)
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Jan 8, 2004
"The Legend of Spud Murphy," "Lily Quench and the Dragon of Ashby"
"The Legend of Spud Murphy," Eoin Colfer, Puffin Books; March 2004; 90 pp. If you have no clue why your older siblings rave about author Eoin Colfer, you're probably too young to have read about the wild escapades of Colfer's hero, Artemis Fowl. But his latest book, "The Legend of Spud Murphy," is your chance to find out why his fiction is worth all the fuss.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Dec 4, 2003
"Lionboy," "The English Roses"
"Lionboy," Zizou Corder, Puffin Books; 2003; 352 pp. How old do you have to be to write your first book? Thirty years old? Twenty? How about 10? If you're Isabel Adomakoh Young, 10 is as good an age as any.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Nov 6, 2003
"The Goose Girl," "The Tiger Bone Thief"
"The Goose Girl," Shannon Hale, Bloomsbury; 2003; 383 pp. Once upon a time, two German brothers published a collection of children's stories inspired by popular European folk tales. The stories of the Brothers Grimm became fairytale classics, and many of them -- Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty -- are read by children to this day.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Oct 2, 2003
"The House of Windjammer," "Boolar's Big Day Out"
"The House of Windjammer," V.A. Richardson, Bloomsbury; 2003; 349 pp. No matter where you grow up, whether it's in 21st-century Japan or in 17th-century Europe, some things never change. People everywhere, at every time, are at the mercy of larger forces -- political upheavals, market fluctuations, war and peace. With every new chapter in history, their lives get rewritten.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Sep 18, 2003
"Ruby Holler," "The Robodog Superhero"
"Ruby Holler," Sharon Creech, Bloomsbury; 2002, 310 pp. How do you reform a pair of 13-year-old twins who spend every spare moment breaking, spilling, throwing or dropping things -- and cursing loudly when they're caught?
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Sep 4, 2003
On the book trail
A Single Shard, by LINDA SUE PARK, Clarion Books; 2002; 160 pp. If recent children's books are any indication, we might be led to believe that boy-wizards who fight evil and that children lucky enough to embark on wild adventures exist only in Britain or the United States. In fact, why does almost every story worth telling seem to take place only on one or the other side of the Atlantic?
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Aug 21, 2003
"Toad Heaven," "Ada Lovelace"
"Toad Heaven," Morris Gleitzman, Puffin Books; 2002; 192 pp. Humans are always complaining about how unfair life is. Limpy is a cane toad, but he thinks it's unfair, too. For starters, no one likes him (except his family). Female cane toads don't think he's much of a looker. (Cane toads are ugly enough, as it is, so if you're an ugly cane toad, you've really got problems.) He lives in Queensland, Australia, and spends most of his time fleeing humans.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Aug 7, 2003
"Tell the Moon to Come Out," "Illustrated Oxford Dictionary"
"Tell the Moon to Come Out," Joan Lingard, Puffin Books; 2003; 208 pp.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Jul 24, 2003
"Fox," "Stravaganza: City of Masks"
"Fox," Matthew Sweeney, Bloomsbury; 2002; 176 pp. Every city has its ghosts. I don't mean spirits of the dead, I mean real people who might as well be invisible because no one takes notice of them.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Jul 10, 2003
"Big George and the Seventh Knight," "Bang on the Door Animals"
"Big George and the Seventh Knight," Eric Pringle, Bloomsbury; 2002; 200 pp.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Jun 26, 2003
"Follow Me Down," "Frank and the Chamber of Fear"
"Follow Me Down," Julie Hearn, Oxford University Publishing; July 2003; 224 pp. Strange things are happening in the basement of an old house in East London -- and not for the first time. The floor has parted, forming a kind of channel, and faces from the past are floating in it in an endless stream.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Jun 12, 2003
"Ned Mouse Breaks Away," "The Devil's Toenail"
"Ned Mouse Breaks Away," Tim Wynne-Jones, Groundwood Books; 2003; 192 pp. If you were caught playing with your spinach -- or worse, using long, stringy bits of it to write "I hate what Mom makes me eat" -- what would happen? You'd probably get grounded for a few days, right? But imagine if you got locked up for years on end, and maybe you'll better understand Ned Mouse's predicament.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
May 29, 2003
"Power and Stone," "Rome"
"Power and Stone," Alice Leader, Puffin Books; May 2003; 249 pp. There's so much more to history than memorizing dates.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
May 1, 2003
"The Eternity Code," "The Countess's Calamity"
"The Eternity Code," Eoin Colfer, Puffin Books; 2003; 329 pp. The 13-year-old, pint-size mastermind of every heist known to man -- or to fairy -- is back. And in the latest installment of the "Artemis Fowl" series, time is running out not for Artemis' poor adversaries, but for him. His father, rescued from the Russian mafia in the previous book, wants the Fowl dynasty to go straight. But our hardworking boy-criminal wants to pull off just one more teensy-weensy, money-making scam before he gives up his life of crime.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Apr 17, 2003
"The Sands of Time," "Smile, Crocodile, Smile"
"The Sands of Time," Michael Hoeye, Penguin Putnam Books; 2002; 277 pp. Once in a rare while, there comes a book in which the characters outlive the story. It was certainly not easy to say goodbye to Hermux Tantamoq, the dignified little hero of Michael Hoeye's terrific debut novel, "Time Stops for No Mouse."
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Apr 3, 2003
"Going for Stone," "Through the Night"
"Going for Stone," Philip Gross, Oxford University Press; 2002; 224 pp. It seems there's only one thing more terrifying than anything you could dream up -- the world you actually live in. Nick is a teenager who hasn't seen much of that world while growing up, but he's in for a shock when he leaves home. He has no money, nowhere to go -- and nowhere to return to after falling out with his mother's boyfriend. Now he must discover the freedom, but also the terror, of being on his own.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Mar 20, 2003
"Coraline," "Frankenstella and the Video Shop Monster"
"Coraline," Neil Gaiman, Bloomsbury; 2002; 171 pp.     "We are small, we are many     We are many, we are small     We were here before you rose,     We will be here when you fall."
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Mar 6, 2003
"Dealing with Dragons," "The Last Castaways"
"Dealing with Dragons," Patricia C. Wrede, Magic Carpet; 2002; 228 pp.
Japan Times
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Feb 17, 2003
"Holes," "Love That Dog"
"Holes," Louis Sachar, Bloomsbury; 2000; 233 pp. It's hard to say why life is so downright unfair to some children. Take Stanley Yelnats: He gets bullied at school and is ignored by his teachers. And then one day, he gets hit on the head by a pair of sneakers that seems to fall out of the sky. He doesn't know that they've been stolen from a baseball star, but because the cops find him with the sneakers, he gets arrested for theft and sent off to Camp Green Lake.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Japan’s record-low children population weighs on growth
The number of children 14 years old or younger fell for the 43rd straight year to around 14.01 million as of April 1.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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