![]() The panda chooses an appropriate Zen fable for each child, illustrated with rough-edged, Chinese-style brush-and-ink paintings on duotone pages, to play up the story-within-a-story structure. ![]() Speaking "with a slight panda accent," he introduces himself as Stillwater, and charms Addy and Michael-though Karl, the youngest, is still "shy around bears he know." Each day one of the children goes to visit Stillwater, revealing something of him- or herself. Three siblings befriend a giant panda when his red umbrella blows into their yard. He frames the trio of tales within the context of a suburban household. , and played up their spiritual elements with his elegant watercolors, here introduces three Zen stories from Japan. Muth, who has retold traditional stories such as Stone Soup ![]()
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