Lat. Kampung boy.LAT. Kampung boy. First Second. 142p. illus. c2006. 1596431210. $16.95. JS Kampung Boy relates the early childhood of Mat, a boy who grows up in a small village (called a kampung) in rural Malaysia. Mat attends Tuan Syed Amen's Koran reading class, fishes and swims with his friends, and goes dulang-washing at the back of a tin dredge. When he shows his family the tin he's panned, his father thrashes him for thievery Thievery See also Gangsterism, Highwaymen, Outlawry. Alfarache, Guzmán de picaresque, peripatetic thief; lived by unscrupulous wits. [Span. Lit. . The biggest event of Mat's childhood is his circumcision circumcision (sûr'kəmsĭzh`ən), operation to remove the foreskin covering the glans of the penis. It dates back to prehistoric times and was widespread throughout the Middle East as a religious rite before it was introduced among the ceremony, which takes place when he is ten years old. Mat is dressed in traditional garb, attends a huge feast (the entire kampung is invited), led to the river for a dip, and then circumcised on a banana trunk. In order to inherit his father's rubber plantation Mat must do well in his studies; Kampung Boy ends when he leaves for boarding school. This is the type of graphic novel librarians will love; I enjoyed the many interesting details of growing up in a Muslim family. Younger readers will like Lat's cartoon-y style, which emphasizes facial features Facial Features See also anatomy; beards; body, human; eyes. gnathism the condition of having an upper jaw that protrudes beyond the plane of the face. — gnathic, adj. and movement; the art reminds me of Matt Groening Matthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954[1] in Portland, Oregon;[2] his family name is pronounced 'greɪnɪŋ', rhymes with raining (who has a blurb blurb n. A brief publicity notice, as on a book jacket. [Coined by Gelett Burgess (1866-1951), American humorist.] blurb v. on the cover). Kampung Boy contains cartoon nudity (no genitals gen·i·tals pl.n. Genitalia. ), and is recommended for junior high and high school collections. George Galuschak, YA Libn., Montvale PL, Montvale, NJ J--Recommend for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommend for senior high school students. |
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