A place where sunflowers grow = Sabaku ni saita himawari /
Lee-Tai, Amy, 1964-
A place where sunflowers grow = Sabaku ni saita himawari / Sabaku ni saita himawari. story, Amy Lee-Tai ; illustrations, Felicia Hoshino ; [Japanese translation, Marc Akio Lee]. - San Francisco, Calif. : [Berkeley, CA] : Children's Book Press ; Distributed to the book trade by Publishers Group West, c2006. - 31 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Based on the experiences of the author’s mother and grandmother at the Topaz camp in Utah, this gentle book emphasizes the human dignity of the prisoners there and offers hope that we will “work toward a world that will never repeat—to any group of people—what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II.” (Miller Library Staff) While she and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Center during World War II, Mari gradually adjusts as she enrolls in an art class, makes a friend, plants sunflowers and waits for them to grow.
Recommended for primary school (age 6-12) and up.
Parallel text in English and Japanese.
0892392150 9780892392155
2005032957
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--Fiction.
Japanese language materials--Bilingual.
PZ49.31 / .L44 2006
A place where sunflowers grow = Sabaku ni saita himawari / Sabaku ni saita himawari. story, Amy Lee-Tai ; illustrations, Felicia Hoshino ; [Japanese translation, Marc Akio Lee]. - San Francisco, Calif. : [Berkeley, CA] : Children's Book Press ; Distributed to the book trade by Publishers Group West, c2006. - 31 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Based on the experiences of the author’s mother and grandmother at the Topaz camp in Utah, this gentle book emphasizes the human dignity of the prisoners there and offers hope that we will “work toward a world that will never repeat—to any group of people—what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II.” (Miller Library Staff) While she and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Center during World War II, Mari gradually adjusts as she enrolls in an art class, makes a friend, plants sunflowers and waits for them to grow.
Recommended for primary school (age 6-12) and up.
Parallel text in English and Japanese.
0892392150 9780892392155
2005032957
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--Fiction.
Japanese language materials--Bilingual.
PZ49.31 / .L44 2006