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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
adventurous
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
Not exactly an immigrant story and not exactly a children's book. This captures a Japanese experiences and loves between Japan and United States before WW 2. The art is photo-realistic in style and beautiful. And the book hints at a subtext of being in love with two places and cultures that were literally at war. But it doesn't really work as a children's book. And it's not deep and in depth enough for a young adult.
My continued exploration of local author/illustrators. This is Say's best known book and winner of a Caldecott Award.
This book tells the story of a mans grandfather who came to America from Japan. He gets homesick for Japan and returns. When he returns back to Japan he longs to go back to visit California.
I gave this book 5/5 stars because I feel it is easily related to. I love hearing my grandparents talk about how our family came to America. Since America is so diverse and known as the "melting pot," a lot of us have families from other countries. It's interesting to hear coming to America stories.
In the classroom I would use this book for students to find out how their family came to America and how they were established here. They could journal about it or present to the class. This would require them to talk to their parents or grandparents and hear the story themselves.
650 Lexile, grade level O, interest level 3rd grade
I gave this book 5/5 stars because I feel it is easily related to. I love hearing my grandparents talk about how our family came to America. Since America is so diverse and known as the "melting pot," a lot of us have families from other countries. It's interesting to hear coming to America stories.
In the classroom I would use this book for students to find out how their family came to America and how they were established here. They could journal about it or present to the class. This would require them to talk to their parents or grandparents and hear the story themselves.
650 Lexile, grade level O, interest level 3rd grade
JAPAN!!
Having multiple homes and traveling
Culture
SO GOOD. My students loved how lifelike the pictures were and the word choice pushed them just out of their comfort zone. It was great.
Having multiple homes and traveling
Culture
SO GOOD. My students loved how lifelike the pictures were and the word choice pushed them just out of their comfort zone. It was great.
JAPAN!!
Having multiple homes and traveling
Culture
SO GOOD. My students loved how lifelike the pictures were and the word choice pushed them just out of their comfort zone. It was great.
Having multiple homes and traveling
Culture
SO GOOD. My students loved how lifelike the pictures were and the word choice pushed them just out of their comfort zone. It was great.
I picked this up from the OTC library after hearing Lois Lowry tell the story of winning the Newberry award for The Giver the same year Allen Say won the Caldecott award for this book. Though a discussion at the awards ceremony, they found out that they went to the same school in Toyko.
The pictures in this book are just lovely and the bittersweet sentiment of belonging to more than one place is eloquently expressed. If you have picture-book-aged kiddos, check it out, or even if you are an adult like me who likes to occasionally read a beautifully illustrated book. :)
The pictures in this book are just lovely and the bittersweet sentiment of belonging to more than one place is eloquently expressed. If you have picture-book-aged kiddos, check it out, or even if you are an adult like me who likes to occasionally read a beautifully illustrated book. :)
It was a GREAT multicultural book to see that people are always missing their other home when they are in the other. Beautiful illustrations. Great for ELLs!
This is about a boy who is telling the story of how his grandpa left Japan to go to the New World. It was a three week journey and when he got there he saw fields, factories, mountains and rivers. He met so many new people all from different decent. His favorite place thought was California. Later he went back to Japan to marry his childhood sweetheart and they both came back to California where they had a baby girl and raised her there. When their daughter grew up they went back to Japan to see where he grew up and to show his daughter but she didn't belong there. When the boy was born he loved visiting his grandfather and hearing about California. That was when the war began in 1939, they returned to where his childhood had been, and he longed to visit California. When he grew up he moved to California he loved it but he longed to be home. It doesn't matter which country he was in he always missed the other one, and now is when he really understood his grandfather.
This story was non-fiction also and was a young boys recollection of his grandfather's life. He moved from Japan to California and for most of his life he went back and forth until the war. I am guessing that this war was World War 2 and the specific event that destroyed his village must have been wither the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki when the villages were completely destroyed. We can get a sense of the time line of when all of his grandfathers traveling was taking place and what other historical events were going on at that time. We were also able to see the effects of the bombing on the survivors spirits.
This story was non-fiction also and was a young boys recollection of his grandfather's life. He moved from Japan to California and for most of his life he went back and forth until the war. I am guessing that this war was World War 2 and the specific event that destroyed his village must have been wither the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki when the villages were completely destroyed. We can get a sense of the time line of when all of his grandfathers traveling was taking place and what other historical events were going on at that time. We were also able to see the effects of the bombing on the survivors spirits.