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K-Gr 4—Muth, in his author's note, says "haiku is like an instant captured in words." Indeed, that is evident in 26 poems depicting images across four seasons, starting with fall. Muth's well-known panda, Koo, is depicted on a white background with just a touch of blue sky, looking up at swirling leaves: "Autumn/are you dreaming /of new clothes?" Koo, who begins alone, is soon joined by two children for the rest of the seasons. In the spring, birds alight on Koo, the girl, and on a branch hel...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Twenty-six haiku are presented by young panda Koo, whom fans of Muth's Zen Ties will recognize as the haiku-spouting nephew of Stillwater, the Zen Buddhist panda from Zen Shorts and Zen Ghosts. Here, Koo is on his own, eventually joined by two human children who appear on his doorstep to play. The story told through the haiku follows the cycle of the seasons, from fall ("Autumn, / are you dreaming / of new clothes?") to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Twenty-six haiku are presented by young panda Koo, eventually joined by two human children. The story told through the haiku follows the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More