* The Coconut Monk by Thich Nhat Hanh, illus. by Vo-Dinh Mai (Parallax, 2006) In the midst of war, a monk, a cat, and a mouse learn to live together in peace.

ISBN 0-262-56097-6 625 pp., illus., references, index $57.95 softcover Copublished by The MIT Press Expertise in Context

Dancing In the Wings by Debbie Allen, Illus. By Kadir Nelson

American Elsevier, New York, 398 p., illus., color.

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(The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats.) Illus. by Elisa Arguile.

National Ballet of Canada member Linda Maybarduk obviously thinks so, based on her own encounters with the man as student and later as partner, The Dancer Who Flew: A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev (1999, Tundra Books, 180 pages, illus. $18.95.

xix + 244 p., maps, b&w illus., endnotes, references, index.

** BISHOP, Eamonn (text) Jill Miller (illus.) A Box of What?

Calgary: H.T Murgatroyd Publishing, 115 pp., illus., paper, $9.95.

(The Lentil's Report and Other Poems.) Illus. by Gabriel Gutierrez.

xii + 422 p., 23 contributors, maps, b&w and colour illus., individual chapter references, index.