Books written in English
ROAR! Now I’ve got your attention, can I interest you in a book of poems about dinosaurs?
Though they went extinct 65 million years ago, dinosaurs are still everywhere. They’re on TV in The Land Before Time, in classrooms and museum collections, but it might still be hard to believe that dinosaurs walked here once. The poets in this anthology bring dinosaurs out of their display cases and into your home, and ask them politely to be careful with the carpet.
This book is approximately for children aged 8+.
Apa kamu pernah mendengar rumor tentang sebuah hutan?
Ceritanya begini: suatu hari, seorang laki-laki memasuki hutan. Kabarnya di dalam sana sangat gelap, petir selalu menyambar, pohon-pohon terlihat seperti hantu, dan ajaibnya, di jutan itu selalu turun hujan. Ya, hanya di bagian hutan itu saja, bagian lainnya tidak! Laki-laki itu terus masuk ke dalam hutan. Dan apakah kamu tahu, sejak hari itu dia tidak pernah terlihat lagi. Dia seakan-akan menghilang, lenyap ditelan bumi, tidak ada kabar berita.
Buku ini ditulis oleh Satria Addeva dalam bahasa Indonesia dan bahasa Inggris.
Damdam kehilangan wajahnya. Aduh, bagaimana ini?
Tenang, kakekku ahli membuat topeng kayu. Banyak sekali jenis topeng yang dibuatnya. Ayo, kita coba saja topeng-topeng itu.
Tapi Damdam jadi berubah-ubah sikap mengikuti topeng yang dikenakannya. Dan salah satunya begitu menakutkan dan sulit dilepaskan. Ooh, apa yang harus kulakukan?
Ketika Damdam kehilangan mukanya menggunakan topeng-topeng yang dipakai dalam tari topeng, sebuah pertunjukan asli Cirebon, Jawa Barat. Setiap kali Damdam mengenakan topeng yang berbeda, karakter yang dilambangkan lewat topeng itu pun muncul: Panji berwarna putih melambangkan kesucian bayi baru lahir, Samba (Pamindo) yang berwajah anak kecil yang ceria dan lincah, sampai Kelana (Rahwana) berwarna merah yang melambangkan orang yang sedang marah. Kelima topeng ini mewakili fase kehidupan manusia.
Cerita ini tak hanya mengajak kami melihat topeng sebagai bagian dari budaya tapi juga sebagai metafora filosofi hidup. Wajah kita memiliki ekspresi-ekspresi yang sama seperti topeng-topeng, tapi bahwa ada sifat asli yang menunjukkan diri dan kesungguhan diri yang perlu sejati perlu ditunjukkan, lepas tanpa topeng.
Ditulis oleh Ary Nilandari, ilustrasi oleh Andhika W.
Our world needs people who seek to understand, rather than assume without knowing. Here Kina learns to embrace change and not judge others.
Dunia kita membutuhkan orang-orang yang mau memahami, bukan hanya berasumsi tanpa mengerti. Dalam kisah ini, Kina belajar merangkul perubahan dan tidak menghakimi sesama.
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This book and the Kina’s Story Series is the result of a beautiful coincidence. It is a retelling of short stories I wrote when I was 10 years old, found accidentally in my old archives. With some encouragement, I decided to simplify it and share it to the world with a mission: to promote literacy, bilingual learning, and meaningful moral stories accompanied by captivating imagery as beautifully crafted by my good friend Kathrin.
I hope that all of us – adults and children alike – can smile and find inspiration from these pages.
Buku ini dan seri Kina adalah hasil dari kebetulan yang indah. Cerita-cerita ini saya ceritakan kembali dari cerita pendek yang saya tulis waktu berusia 10 tahun, yang tidak sengaja saya temukan di arsip lama saya. Dengan sedikit dorongan, saya memutuskan untuk menyederhanakannya dan membagikannya dengan sebuah misi: mempromosikan literasi, pembelajaran dwi-bahasa, dan cerita dengan pesan moral penuh arti; bersama penggambaran yang memukau hasil karya Kathrin, teman baik saya.
This book is bilingual with both English and Indonesian text.
Buku ini adalah buku bilingual dengan teks dalam bahasa Inggris dan bahasa Indonesia.
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain’s new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singin weekend at Professor Welch’s, deliver a lecture on ‘Merrie England’ and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch’s awful son Bertrand.
A rapturous and uproarious collision of East and West, a novel about the dream of love and the love of dreams. Fresh from eleven years in Paris studying Freud, bookish Mr. Muo returns to China to spread the gospel psychoanalysis. His secret purpose is to free his college sweetheart from prison. To do so he has to get on the food side of the bloodthirsty Judge Di, and to accomplish that he must provide the judge with a virgin maiden.
This may prove difficult in a China that has embraced Western sexual mores along with capitalism — since Muo, while indisputably a romantic, is no ladies’ man. Tender, laugh-out-loud funny, and unexpectedly wise. Mr. Muo’s Travelling Couch introduces a hero as endearingly inept as Inspector Clouseau and as valiant as Don Quixote.
Everyone loves Peanuts! And now to celebrate the sixy-fifth anniversary of characters known around the world comes Peanuts: Friends Forever, an original collection of full-color comic strips featuring the whole gang.
Charlie Brown ponders Life. Linus waits up all night for the Great Pumpkin. Peppermint Patty tries (and fails) to whip the baseball team into shape. Lucy proves time and again that she cannot be trusted with a football. Through ups and down, these beloved friends remind us why Charles M. Schulz’s cherished creation remains the most popular comic series of all time.
This book is a compilation of two Salinger’s novella which was originally published in The New Yorker in 1955 and 1959. It’s two parts that follows the Glass family narratives. Raise High is narrated by Buddy Glass, the second of the Glass brothers, describing Buddy’s visit on Army leave (during World War II, in 1942) to attend the wedding of his brother Seymour to Muriel and tells of the aftermath when Seymour fails to show.
While Seymour: An Introduction is Buddy’s attempt to introduce the reader to his brother Seymour, who had committed suicide in 1948. The story is told in a stream of consciousness narrative as Buddy reminisces in his secluded home. Like others concerning the Glass family, touches upon Zen Buddhism, haiku, and the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta.
An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.
Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding God may be the prelude to losing everything else. Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense. Snow is of immense relevance to our present.
Pamuk’s one of our personal favourite with his poetic narration, unfolding each characters beliefs, motives and ideologies a picturesque plot to follow.
Na Willa is a bright, adventurous girl living in Surabaya’s suburbs, her home in the middle of an alley surrounded by cypress trees. She spends her days running after trains with Dul (she always beats him), going down to the market with Mak, and thinking about how people can sing through radios. But while everyone else tells Na Willa what to do and who to be, Na Willa wants to be free. She doesn’t want to be “just” a girl, she doesn’t want to look just like Pak, or just Mak. She wants to be both and more.
Indonesian author Reda Gaudiamo has created a collection of stories of curious adventures and musings of a multicultural girl growing up in Indonesia with an East Indonesian mother and a Chinese-Indonesian father. Set in a time when children spent the day outside, listening to Lilis Suryani’s songs on the radio, and when race and gender would still go undiscussed, this is Na Willa’s story as she grows up unafraid to ask the big questions.
Na Willa was originally written in Indonesian by Reda Gaudiamo and published by Post Press.
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