{"id":2192,"date":"2014-03-04T21:52:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T21:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2014-03-04T21:52:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T21:52:58","slug":"march-2014-book-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2014\/03\/04\/march-2014-book-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"A Jataka folktale of a rabbit and a lion is the March Book of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/Image-85.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2193 alignleft\" alt=\"Image (85)\" src=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/Image-85.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/Image-85.jpg 336w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/Image-85-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Foolish Rabbit&#8217;s Big Mistake<\/em> by Rafe Martin and illustrated by Ed Young.\u00a0 G.P. Putnam&#8217;s Sons: New York.\u00a0\u00a01985.<\/p>\n<p>Rafe Martin is a professional storyteller.\u00a0 He is also the author of over 20 books that have been translated into many\u00a0 languages including Swedish, French, Xhosa, Zulu, Afrikaans, Korean,\u00a0\u00a0 Japanese and Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p>Rafe\u2019s retelling of a well-known Jataka tale, <em>Foolish Rabbit&#8217;s Big Mistake, <\/em>illustrates\u00a0how jumping to conclusions can lead to trouble. It is the story of how a little rabbit misinterprets a loud crash, and how a brave lion\u2019s common sense restores order to chaos. It is, essentially, a story about fears and\u00a0rumors, and ultimately of courage.\u00a0 A funny, rhythmic beautiful picture book\u00a0about courage and facing fears\u2014with a very happy ending.<\/p>\n<p>For over forty years, Rafe has been\u00a0 investigating, working with and writing about the\u00a0 ancient, traditional Buddhist teachings expressed in the Jataka Tales. For the past several years, he has been sharing these teachings and his profound interpretations of them at Buddhist communities throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being a\u00a0storyteller and author,\u00a0 Rafe Martin is also a graduate of Harpur College.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Foolish Rabbit&#8217;s Big Mistake <\/em>is housed in the Alumni Authors Collection in the University Archives in the Special Collections department.\u00a0 Special Collections\u00a0is open 10 a.m. \u2013 4 p.m. Monday \u2013 Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Call number:\u00a0 PZ7. M364 1835 Fo 1985\u00a0 Alumni Authors Collections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foolish Rabbit&#8217;s Big Mistake by Rafe Martin and illustrated by Ed Young.\u00a0 G.P. Putnam&#8217;s Sons: New York.\u00a0\u00a01985. Rafe Martin is a professional storyteller.\u00a0 He is also the author of over 20 books that have been translated into many\u00a0 languages including Swedish, French, Xhosa, Zulu, Afrikaans, Korean,\u00a0\u00a0 Japanese and Portuguese. Rafe\u2019s retelling of a well-known Jataka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-featured-book"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}