All About Universe Arounds Me: Aug 8, 2011

I am back to write about books reference as my promise to share what books that I think nice to read. This post today related to previous post about books too. Here is the Part II about books;

Children Books

Picture and Coloring Books ; I include these kind of books because I have many nieces and nephews and few kids that I take care at home. So my family and I, used to buy them these books and read them story about what inside the books for 2 kids who still can not be able to read at the moments. Mostly, we bought them fairy tale books about beauty & Kindness such as Cinderella, Snow White, Princess etc even more with fairy tale-legendary folks story from our own country Indonesia such as Red Onion & White Onion ( entitle in Indonesia ; Bawang Merah & Bawang Putih - red ), Golden Apple Snail ( Keong Mas - the title in Indonesian ) those books for girls specially but often I read these books for the boys too. At the other hand they can learn how to coloring it, to grow their sense of art also and the the good thing message from the books are about the kindness and how to be sportive in doing things in many ways.

Books of Cinderella, Red & White Onion, Golden Apple Snail

Story Books for Kids; Although above already mentioned and included in story books, but in this part, I emphasized the story books only for children. In this type of books often found lots of words, at mentioned above: inside the books are mostly with simple words and emphasized in coloring. Mostly, I accustomed the children with the folks legendary story from my country. Such as;

Malin Kundang: the story is about the kid who rebels against his own parents specially to his mother whom already deliver him as a success person. But once he has everything, he didn't admit the existence of his own parents and the mother was disappointed to his manner and then she condemned Malin Kundang to become a rock. The rock resembles a person. This story comes from West Sumatera, Indonesia. Below the pictures of book cover and the rock.

The Book Cover of Malin Kundang

The Rock which Resembles a person refer to Malin Kundang Legendary

Sangkuriang; this folk comes from West Java, Indonesia. This Sundanese folk-legendary story was talking about the history of Tangkuban Perahu, the lake of Bandung, Buranggang mountain, and Tunggul cliff and the city of Bandung. This folklore has written references which had been found from ' Manik Poet ' ( Poet = Pujangga in Indonesian language, we called it ' Pujangga Manik ' ) manuscript that he wrote down in a palm leaf. From here, the experts could be able to determine that Sundanese people has been living in highland of West Java, Bandung, Tangkuban Perahu since thousand years before century and was talking about Hindu and Buddha development its religion in some parts in Indonesia.

The folk was telling about a beautiful princess which named Dayang Sumbi, who married a dog which named Tumang. tumang was a tangible reincarnation of god in actual shape was a dog. From the marriage of Sumbi and Tumang, they have 1 child whose named Sangkuriang. Anyway, Sangkuriang did not know that Tumang was his daddy.

Oneday, Sangkuriang went for hunt a boar and did not get any result in the hunt. Sangkuriang put on blame to Tumang that Tumang incompetent to arrest the boar. So, Sangkuriang killed Tumang ( his daddy ) and took Tumang's heart for the dinner at home. Dayang Sumbi was so pissed off, once she knew that the dinner food was Tumang. Sumbi knocked on Sangkuriang's head and injured and also ask Sangkuriang to go out from house. So, Sangkuriang left and went around the world.

After following years, Sumbi had bless from Gods that she would be young and beautiful forever. She would never get old.

One day, Sangkuriang got back to its own home land which already changed a lot. Sumbi met with Sangkuriang. It was telling in the folk that they both were not acknowledge that they were family, mother and son. Sumbi did not know about this at first. And they both fell in love and planned to get married together. Until one time, Sumbi found out the scar in Sangkuriang's head which was exactly the scar of her son. But, Sangkuriang denied it and still insist Sumbi to marry with.

Sumbi later on, made a plan to thwart the marriage to Sangkuriang. Sumbi asked Sangkuriang to make a big ship on a lake by stemming Citarum river in just 1 night. Because Sangkuriang was a descendant of god ( the blood of Tumang ), he was able to execute the demand of Sumbi.

Sumbi was afraid if sangkuriang could be able to do this. She prayed to god ( Sang Hyang Tunggal -red ), she asked how to avoid Sangkuriang's effort in making Sumbi's demands. The god gave her sign that she would throw her own white woven material which called ' irisan boreh rarang ' , so then the dawn would come sooner.

The works of Sangkuriang which were almost done became failed because the dawn had came. The deal was over. he was so mad and kick the ship and it changed becoming Tangkuban Perahu, and the stemming river was dried the water and change into the city of Bandung. He ran and tried to catch Sumbi which she was running away to Putri mountain and suddenly changed herself becoming a ' jaksi ' flower in purpose that Sangkuriang would not recognize her. ( jaksi flower is narcissus flower, a type of daffodil ).

Below here are the pictures :