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Rice Is Life
By Gelman, Rita Golden & Choi, Yangsook
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80505-719-5
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt & Company, 2000.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2000
In verse and in descriptive prose, Gelman (Queen Esther Saves Her People) tours the rice fields, or sawahs, of Bali. On each spread, a poem focuses on the creatures in the sawah (e.g., the eels, the bats that eat the mosquitoes, the mice that nibble at the crops) and a paragraph explains an aspect of the planting, cultivation and harvesting of rice, the staple of the Indonesian diet....Log In or Sign Up to Read More
