A beautifully illustrated picture book that tells the classic Buddhist tale of a young servant girl's profound and life-changing encounter with the Buddha--for children ages 5-10.
Inspired by Buddhist tradition, this original story tells how Padme, a young servant girl, meets the Buddha as she is sweeping her master’s house. When she laments that she is so busy that she would never have time to meditate, the Buddha gives her the instruction to “sweep and clean.” This simple mindfulness practice transforms Padme’s life, and when she encounters the Buddha many years later, he teaches her how to send compassion out to others. This beautifully illustrated picture book is a wonderful way to introduce children to the power of mindfulness meditation practice.
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Rebecca Hazell is an award-winning artist, author, and educator. She has published four nonfiction children’s books and created best-selling educational filmstrips and educational craft kits for children. She is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, and she holds an honors BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz in Russian and Chinese history. Her books include The Barefoot Book of Heroic Children, Women Writers, and several self-published fantasy novels. Her website is rebeccahazell.com.
Gr 1–3—The sweeper in this brightly painted picture book is Padme, an orphaned servant girl in ancient India. Bored with her chores and disillusioned at a tender age, Padme wants more from life than the demands of her perfectionist master and mistress. A visit from the Buddha changes nothing and yet everything. Padme's physical circumstances are never altered—she remains the palace sweeper throughout her adult life, marries the gardener, and has two children. However, Padme's internal dialogue and attitude are transformed by the Buddha's recommendation to view sweeping as a daily act of meditation. A newfound fondness for her work endears Padme to her masters, who in turn treat her better. The Buddha visits Padme once more in her adulthood, and at her request teaches the community a chant to bring happiness and end suffering. Hazell's text is simple and clear, and passages featuring the Buddha's gentle instructional lectures on meditative breathing and chanting are particularly strong. The story holds up better than the watercolor illustrations, which while beautiful, delicate, and cheerfully colored, comprise predictable clusters of stiffly modeled figures. The painted tableaux appear costumed and posed rather than living and breathing, and characters lack dynamism and variety in facial features and expression that could have aided story development and prompted reader investment in the fate of Padme and her community. VERDICT This instructive story based on Buddhist tradition is a welcome addition to any collection in need of a primer in meditation practices and mindfulness.—Lauren Younger, New York Public Library
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