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The Fences Between Us

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In her picture book debut, artist Shimizu finely crafts pen-and-ink illustrations with a calligraphy brush to help portray a true story of resilience during WWII. Born in Japan, Kenichi Zenimura, nicknamed Zeni, grows up in Hawaii and California loving and playing baseball. When WWII sees him, his wife, and teenage sons sent to an Arizona internment camp, Zeni "felt as if he were shrinking into a tiny hard ball." The bulk of Moss's (Nurse, Soldier, Spy) descriptive narrative centers on Zeni's efforts to build a baseball diamond at the camp. Thick brush lines create heavy textures in the digitally colored pictures, giving some the appearance of woodcut prints. All of the scenes occupy full spreads, echoing the expansive nature of Zeni's plan: unwilling to settle for a dusty dirt field, he irrigates it and grows grass; benches are made from wood scavenged under dark of night, and uniforms sewn from potato sacks. This triumphant story of how the father of Japanese-American baseball brightened the dark days of war concludes with an afterword, b&w photos, and notes from both author and illustrator. Ages 6-10. Author's agent: Alyssa Eisner Henkin, Trident Media Group. (Apr.)

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In her picture book debut, artist Shimizu finely crafts pen-and-ink illustrations with a calligraphy brush to help portray a true story of resilience during WWII. Born in Japan, Kenichi Zenimura, nicknamed Zeni, grows up in Hawaii and California loving and playing baseball. When WWII sees him, his wife, and teenage sons sent to an Arizona internment camp, Zeni "felt as if he were shrinking into a tiny hard ball." The bulk of Moss's (Nurse, Soldier, Spy) descriptive narrative centers on Zeni's efforts to build a baseball diamond at the camp. Thick brush lines create heavy textures in the digitally colored pictures, giving some the appearance of woodcut prints. All of the scenes occupy full spreads, echoing the expansive nature of Zeni's plan: unwilling to settle for a dusty dirt field, he irrigates it and grows grass; benches are made from wood scavenged under dark of night, and uniforms sewn from potato sacks. This triumphant story of how the father of Japanese-American baseball brightened the dark days of war concludes with an afterword, b&w photos, and notes from both author and illustrator. Ages 6-10. Author's agent: Alyssa Eisner Henkin, Trident Media Group. (Apr.)

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Now in Spanish, this classic, award-winning picture book tells the story of Shorty and his family, placed in an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor along with thousands of Japanese Americans.

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Baseball Saved Us [Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Baseball Saved Us --the groundbreaking children's book about the Japanese American concentration camp experience during World War II After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

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Aftermath of Internment

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Flowers from Mariko book. Read 6 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. World War II is over and Mariko and her family are finally allow...

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Fish for Jimmy — Yamasaki, Katie — When brothers Taro and Jimmy and their mother are forced to move from their home in California to a Japanese internment camp in the wake of the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing, Taro daringly escapes the camp to find fresh fish for his grieving brother.

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Grady ( I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery) recounts, in partial epistolary format, the true story of San Diego children's librarian Clara Breed, who corresponded with her young Japanese-American patrons while they were interned during WWII. Excerpts from the children's letters appear as small signed postcards that overlay many of Hirao's muted colored-pencil illustrations. "Books make the day shorter and happier for us," one postcard declares; others offer upsetting glimpses into camp life ("We live in a horse stable"). Miss Breed also brought books and small gifts to the children at their Arizona internment camp and advocated in other ways ("She wrote magazine articles. She wrote letters asking for a library and school for the imprisoned children"). Endpapers featuring captioned b&w photographs from that era-one shows Japanese-American children awaiting deportation-cement the story's context for young readers. This affecting introduction to a distressing chapter in U.S. history and a brave librarian who inspired hope concludes with extensive back matter, including an author's note, a timeline of Breed's life, and a selected history of Japanese-Americans in the U.S. Ages 4-8. (Jan.)

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Grady ( I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery) recounts, in partial epistolary format, the true story of San Diego children's librarian Clara Breed, who corresponded with her young Japanese-American patrons while they were interned during WWII. Excerpts from the children's letters appear as small signed postcards that overlay many of Hirao's muted colored-pencil illustrations.

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Read "Fish for Jimmy Inspired by One Family's Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp" by Katie Yamasaki available from Rakuten Kobo. For two boys in a Japanese American family, everything changed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States went...

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Romance During WWII Internment

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Love blooms in the Idaho desert at the Japanese prison camp called Minidoka in this stirring, compassionate narrative inspired by the experiences of Tokuda-Hall's ( Squad) Japanese American maternal grandparents. Employing simple yet evocative language ("Though each camp was different, they were all the same. Uncomfortable and unjust"), the author follows word-loving volunteer librarian Tama as she struggles to name her shifting emotions in the camp, where internees suffer from extreme weather conditions, a lack of privacy-the library window's foremost view of a guard tower offers a constant reminder-and inhumane treatment. "But she could not think of a word that was right. She was scared and sad and confused and frustrated and lonely and hopeful." The constant smiles and companionship of George, the small library's consistent patron, soon prove comforting-and lead to something more. Fluid, dynamic gouache and watercolor illustrations by Imamura ( Winged Wonders) spotlight the expressive internees' individualism amid a bleak landscape, immersing readers via era-specific wardrobes and hues. Alongside a sensitive introduction to life in Japanese internment camps, this picture book transcends its central romance to encompass love for books, community, and being "human." Back matter features a striking author's note that provides further context and draws effective contemporary parallels, plus a photograph of the real-life Tama and George. Ages 6-9. (Jan.)

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Love blooms in the Idaho desert at the Japanese prison camp called Minidoka in this stirring, compassionate narrative inspired by the experiences of Tokuda-Hall's ( Squad) Japanese American maternal grandparents. Employing simple yet evocative language ("Though each camp was different, they were all the same.

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Love in the Library a book by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Yas Imamura

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Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII and based on true events, this moving love story finds hope in heartbreak. To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they…

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Written by Amy Lee-Tai
Illustrated by Felicia Hoshino

Mari and her family are interned in the Utah desert during World War II. Mari enrolls in an art class and plants sunflower seeds, but it seems impossible that anything beautiful could survive behind the barbed wire.

Bilingual in English and Japanese
32 Pages * Ages 6 and up
9 ¾" x 10 ¾"
ISBN: 978-0-89239-215-5
Publisher: Children's Book Press (now an imprint of Lee & Low Books)

awards...

Jane Addams Peace Award
The Society of Illustrators "The Original Art"

where to buy...

Availble through publisher Children's Book Press (now an imprint of Lee & Low Books)
Available through Alibris
Available through Amazon
At your local bookstore! Use ISBN: 9780892392155

the story...

Mari wonders if anything can bloom at Topaz, where her family is interned along with thousands of other Japanese Americans during World War II. The summer sun is blazingly hot, and Mari's art class has begun. But it's hard to think of anything to draw in a place where nothing beautiful grows. Somehow, glimmers of hope begin to surface under the harsh sun-in the eyes of a kindly art teacher, in the tender words of Mari's parents, and in the smile of a new friend. Inspired by her family's experiences, author Amy Lee-Tai has crafted a story rooted in one of America's most shameful historical episodes-the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. The art schools which offered internees moments of solace and self-expression are a little known part of this history. Amy Lee-Tai's gentle prose and Felicia Hoshino's stunning mixed media images are a testimony to hope and how it can survive alongside even the harshest injustice.

the author...

Amy Lee-Tai was born in Queens, New York and is of Japanese and Chinese ancestry. She first learned of the internment from her mother and through her grandmother, Hisako Hibi's paintings. After earning her Master's in Education from Harvard, she worked in schools as a Reading Specialist. Amy now lives in Virginia with her husband and children. This is her first book.

the inspiration...

Peaceful Painter: Memoirs of an Issei Woman Artist Hisako Hibi; Introduction by Kristine Kim; Recollections by Ibuki Hibi Lee Born in Japan, Hisako Hibi came to America with her parents as a teenager. When she and her husband were relocated in 1942 to the Topaz internment camp in Utah they became teachers at the art school founded by Chiura Obata. In 1945 they moved to New York, where she found work as an apprentice seamstress. Hisako Hibi continued painting for the next forty years and, after she returned to San Francisco in 1954, she exhibited her work in numerous shows including several one-person events. Her art, and the informal journals and notes that she kept during those years, are the basis for this book. Hibi's work while interned largely reflected her life as a young woman, wife, and mother, and her later work reflects the same keen sense of clarity about different subjects. Taken together, her paintings offer an insight into the daily life of a woman who would not abandon her art or betray her spirit. Published in conjunction with the Japanese American National Museum Hisako Shimizu Hibi (1907-1991) was born in a farming village near Kyoto, Japan, and moved to California at age fourteen. She studied western-style oil painting at the California School of Fine Arts and participated in annual exhibitions at the San Francisco Art Association. Her work was exhibited throughout her career, and by the end of her life she was well entrenched in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community.

the reviews...

From School Library Journal
Grade 1-4 - Lee-Tai based this story on the experiences of her grandparents and her mother, who were interned in Topaz, Utah, during World War II. With quiet understatement, the text focuses on the confusion and sadness young Mari feels after her familys abrupt relocation to the camp. In the harsh desert landscape, she thinks wistfully of her home, where she played with her brother in a yard filled with flowers. Her parents are worried about her silence and listlessness, but an art class offers her a means of expressing her feelings. She makes a friend as well, and when her desert sunflowers put up seedlings, she feels a new sense of hope. The story is told in both English and Japanese, and the earth-toned illustrations, created using watercolors, ink, tissue paper, and acrylic paint, nicely detail the simple plot. Hoshino modeled some of her compositions on those of Hisako Hibi, the authors grandmother and a prominent Japanese-American painter. Other picture books dealing with this topic include Eve Buntings So Far from the Sea (Clarion, 1998), Yoshiko Uchidas The Bracelet (Philomel, 1993), and Rick Noguchi and Deneen Jenkss Flowers from Mariko (Lee &amp; Low, 2001). Lee-Tais tale, with its emphasis on the internees dignity and feelings, offers the gentlest introduction to this tragic episode.-Marilyn Taniguchi, Beverly Hills Public Library, CA

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Gr. 1-3. Inspired by the experiences of the author's Japanese American grandparents at Utah's Topaz Relocation Center during World War II, this picture book, presented in English alongside a Japanese translation, celebrates the "sense of purpose and peace" that the act of creation can bring. Everything seems grim about young Mari's life in the desert camp, where "the mountains, the vast sky, and the blazing sun made [her] feel as small as a sunflower seed." However, with gentle encouragement from her parents and art teacher, Mari crayons colorful pictures that lift her spirits, paralleling the sprouting of sunflower seeds in her mother's parched garden. The message feels a bit overt, and the slightly wandering story line may not hold every reader. Still, Hoshino's delicate mixed-media illustrations offer a wide-angle view of the daily lives of internees, and her buff-colored backdrops palpably convey the dusty, arid setting. Although a preface and endnote offer historical background, it's so brief that the book will probably work best as a supplement to more straightforward nonfiction about the time. Jennifer Mattson

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Written by Amy Lee-Tai Illustrated by Felicia Hoshino Mari and her family are interned in the Utah desert during World War II. Mari enrolls in an art class and plants sunflower seeds, but it seems impossible that anything beautiful could survive behind the barbed wire.

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Graphic Novel

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Takei, best known for his role on Star Trek, relates the story of his family's internment during WWII in this moving and layered graphic memoir. Japanese-Americans were classified as "Alien Enemy" after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and were forced to relocate to camps when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Takei, who was five years old, along with his father, mother, and young siblings, was held from 1942 through January 1946, first at Camp Rohwer, Arkansas, and then later at Tule Lake, Calif.. The manga-influenced art by Harmony Becker juxtaposes Takei's childlike wonder over the "adventure" of the train trip with the stress and worry carried by his parents. As much as possible, Takei's parents took pains to ensure their children were shielded from the reality of their situation, though Takei still relates traumas and humiliations (and a few funny stories). It was only years later, during talks with his father, that Takei was given insight into his past. As a teenager, Takei lashes out in anger over the treatment of Japanese-Americans, and his father calmly states that "despite all that we've experienced, our Democracy is still the best in the world." Takei takes that lesson to heart in a stirring speech he delivers at the FDR Library on the 75th anniversary of the Day of Remembrance. Using parallel scenes from Trump's travel ban, in the closing pages, Takei challenges Americans to look to how past humanitarian injustices speak to current political debates. Giving a personal view into difficult history, Takei's work is a testament to hope and tenacity in the face of adversity. ( July)

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Takei, best known for his role on Star Trek, relates the story of his family's internment during WWII in this moving and layered graphic memoir. Japanese-Americans were classified as "Alien Enemy" after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and were forced to relocate to camps when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.

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"It just takes time,
it just takes patience, he says,
just like it does with people. Don't give up
until you have done everything to change
yourself. Then, he says as he sits
on the doorstep, only then you can start
blaming others."

"When Nick leaves our room, he leaves behind a dark thunder cloud. He has carried the shadow with him for so long that it has become a part of him and has settled in the shadows of the room."

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"It just takes time,it just takes patience, he says,just like it does with people. Don't give upuntil you have done everything to changeyourself. Then, he says as he sitson the doorstep, only then you can startblaming others." "When Nick leaves our room, he leaves behind a dark thunder cloud.

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Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation a book by Yoshiko Uchida and Donald Carrick

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Based on Yoshiko Uchida’s personal experiences, this is the moving story of one girl’s struggle to remain brave during the Japanese internment of World War II. In a bleak and dusty prison camp, eleven-year-old Yuki and her family experience both true friendship and heart-wrenching tragedy. Journey t…

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First-person, present-tense narration gives voice to a voiceless child amid the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Ten-year-old Manami and her family are relocated from Bainbridge Island, Wash., to a California internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor; in a wrenching early scene, a soldier forcibly separates Manami from Yujiin, her beloved dog, after which she becomes mute, expressing her longing only in drawings. Manami's narration occasionally takes the form of short, poetic bursts: "So it is settled. Father will work. Mother will cook. Grandfather will sit. What will I do? Water plants. Sit with Grandfather. Wait for Yujiin." Sepahban, the author of several works of children's nonfiction, eloquently conveys the devastating effects of internment and a resilience undergirded by cultural traditions. In one quietly powerful scene, Manami acknowledges her depressed grandfather's return to family meals: "A ceremony to honor a special occasion. Mother is preparing tea." In depicting how Manami's college-age brother, Ron, must choose between internment or joining the army, Sepahban captures the contradictions of this bleak period. Engrossing and heartrending historical fiction. Ages 9-12. Agent: Kathleen Rushall, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. (Jan.)

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Willowcreek Mrs. Ness United States History, AP Human Geography & Spanish

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George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's-and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. In a stunning graphic memoir, Takei revisits his haunting childhood in American concentration camps, as one of over 100,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon-and America itself-in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.

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Nos Llamaron Enemigo (They Called Us Enemy Spanish Edition) a book by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott

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The award-winning New York Times Bestseller, now in Spanish! En estas impactantes memorias en formato de novela gráfica, el actor/autor/activista George Takei rememora sucesos imborrables de su infancia en los campos de concentración en América, como uno de los 120,000 japoneses americanos encarcela…

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