{"id":40505,"date":"2016-11-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=40505"},"modified":"2016-11-08T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T12:00:00","slug":"jq-magazine-book-review-i-want-that-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/08\/jq-magazine-book-review-i-want-that-love\/","title":{"rendered":"JQ Magazine: Book Review \u2014 \u2018I Want That Love\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“I Want That Love<\/em> is a very enjoyable read that teaches the importance of friendship, love and tenderness. Young readers will also learn how life\u2019s most important lessons can be passed down from generation to generation.” (Museyon)<\/p><\/div>\n

By\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Rashaad Jorden<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(<\/strong><\/em>Yamagata-ken<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, 2008-10) for\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>JQ<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. A former head of the JETAA Philadelphia Sub-Chapter, Rashaad is a graduate of Leeds Beckett University with a master\u2019s degree in responsible tourism management. For more on his life abroad and enthusiasm for taiko drumming, visit his blog at<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>www.gettingpounded.wordpress.com<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

During your elementary school days, you surely read about the primordial creatures you know as dinosaurs. But if you haven\u2019t been reminded of the creatures that roamed the earth roughly 65 million years ago in some time, you might not realize that there\u2019s more than meets the eye. Case in point: Tatsuya Miyanishi\u2019s I Want That Love<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

I Want That Love <\/em>(the third book in Miyanishi\u2019s Tyrannosaurus series of 13 titles that have sold more than three million copies internationally) tells the story of a Tyrannosaurus, who is described by the author as \u201cthe strongest of all the dinosaurs.\u201d Not surprisingly, everyone is scared of him as he never fails at getting his way by force. But the good times don\u2019t last\u2014the Tyrannosaurus (whose name is revealed to be Mr. Rhadbodon)\u2014is somehow sapped of his strength after being bitten in his tail by a Masiakasaurus.<\/p>\n

As expected from someone whose identity is clearly tied to brute force, the Tyrannosaurus loses all sense of who he is, so he\u2019s desperate to find any solution to the disaster that has befallen him. Fortunately, he receives help in the form of berries given to him by fellow creatures and he uses his newfound energy to protect his friends from other dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

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But if you think that strength is the most important attribute a creature can possess, you are mistaken. The Tyrannosaurus doesn\u2019t believe so and he relays a very important lesson that has been seemingly passed down to the next generation (the protagonist is not involved in the final scene of the story, when a father Triceratops tells his son what he learned from the Tyrannosaurus).<\/p>\n

As expected for a children\u2019s story, I Want That Love<\/em> is a short read that is full of illustrations (although in some of them it\u2019s difficult to decipher what some of the creatures are) that give readers the sense the story is quite exciting. In fact, Miyanishi does an excellent job of capturing the impeding action in I Want That Love<\/em>. There is a good deal of dialogue in the story (more than I expected) but most of the non-dialogue portion provides a sense that something exciting will happen or has happened.<\/p>\n

A good story also provides a bit of the unexpected. Now, nothing really out-of-the ordinary appeared until the end, when I wondered why the Tyrannosaurus wasn\u2019t involved in the final scene. Then after reading it, it dawned on me what happened to him. That final scene may be a bit challenging for younger readers, but it made I Want That Love<\/em> more interesting and set it apart from other books aimed at little ones.<\/p>\n

That being said, the story seemed to lack any touches of Japan. Miyanishi is an accomplished children\u2019s writer, so it was my hope that I Want That Love<\/em> would implicitly introduce a fascinating aspect of Japanese folklore to readers, such as the presence of dinosaurs in Japanese mythology (if tales of such creatures were prevalent in Japanese mythology). That didn\u2019t really happen.<\/p>\n

However, I Want That Love<\/em> is a very enjoyable read that teaches the importance of friendship, love and tenderness. Young readers will also learn how life\u2019s most important lessons can be passed down from generation to generation.<\/p>\n

I Want That Love is available in English Dec. 1. A special launch event for families featuring reading, activities and prizes will be held Nov. 20 at 1:00 p.m. at Kinokuniya New York, 1073 Sixth Avenue, in New York City. Admission is free. For more information on Miyanishi, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Rashaad Jorden\u00a0(Yamagata-ken, 2008-10) for\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine. A former head of the JETAA Philadelphia Sub-Chapter, Rashaad is a graduate of Leeds Beckett University with a master\u2019s degree in responsible tourism management. For more on his life abroad and enthusiasm for taiko drumming, visit his blog at\u00a0www.gettingpounded.wordpress.com. During your elementary school days, you surely read about the primordial creatures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[75,4,40,53,291,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-articlejournalism","category-books","category-events","category-jq-magazine","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t