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Tashi and the Golem

Anna Fienberg

Reading: Reading together could help if your child wants to pause over the golem’s unexpected behaviour or the rescue strand. Check in at those moments, then let your child set the pace.
Themes: A golem that may not obey: Tashi and his friends make a clay golem to frighten Bang-Bang, but its obedience is uncertain. The setup raises the possibility that making a powerful creation brings unexpected consequences; how the story treats that possibility is not established.
Threats and rescue: Bang-Bang tries to take over a spring, while Tashi must try to rescue Ah Chu’s baby sister from a river pirate. These plot strands involve intimidation and danger, but their outcomes and the story’s treatment of the characters’ actions remain unclear.
Worth knowing: The plot includes a character described as a bully, a threat to access to a fresh-water spring, and a baby being given to a river pirate. How frightening or perilous these episodes feel is unclear.