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Kampung Boy introduces Mat, a young boy growing up in a Muslim community in rural Malaysia during the 1950s. The book reads like an autobiography of author Lat's childhood (and Wikipedia states that it is). Instead of panels, the story unfolds in lovely, full-page black and white illustrations -- some showing a single moment in time, others recreating a sequential series of events. Mat's story is told with humor, primarily through the way in which the characters are rendered (such as his giganti
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Mar 30, 2008
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marked it as to-read
