ICDL – International Children’s Digital Library

“She was only ten years old, and was completely alone. There were women and men around but everyone had a child of their own. Nobody could love her in just the way parents love their kids. She simply did not belong to them.”

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Johnny Bunko trailer from Daniel Pink on Vimeo.

The only career guide you will ever need. Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (or Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age), is at it again. This time with a provocative Japanese cartoon-style look into making good career moves.

From Publishers Weekly: The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need. Johnny Bunko will be published this month by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin, with an initial printing of 75,000 copies. As the title implies, the book acts as a guide for promoting your career and landing the job that best fits your talents and passions. The title character works in the accounting department at a large company but dreams of putting his creative talent to work. A chance encounter with a pair of magic chopsticks opens up a new world of opportunity for him and teaches him six lessons of the modern workplace.