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A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (砂漠に咲いたひまわり) Japanese/ English Bilingual
Under the harsh summer sun, Mari's art class has begun. But it's hard to think of anything to draw in a place where nothing beautiful grows—especially a place like Topaz, the internment camp where Mari's family and thousands of other Japanese Americans have been sent to live during World War II. Somehow, glimmers of hope begin to surface—in the eyes of a kindly art teacher, in the tender words of Mari's parents, and in the smile of a new friend. Amy Lee-Tai's sensitive prose and Felicia Hoshino's stunning mixed-media images show that hope can survive even the harshest injustice.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published May 25, 2006
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October 28, 2011
2007 Jane Adams Award Winner
Based on the story of the author’s own mother, this bi-lingual story is about a little girl and her life in the Japanese internment camps. Following the yellow shades of the desert, the soft watercolor images do an excellent job of capturing Mari’s sadness as she comes to terms with her new life in the camps.
This is a great book to use when discussing Japanese Internment Camps. This would a nice companion book to Baseball Saved Us or a good introduction book to The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.
Based on the story of the author’s own mother, this bi-lingual story is about a little girl and her life in the Japanese internment camps. Following the yellow shades of the desert, the soft watercolor images do an excellent job of capturing Mari’s sadness as she comes to terms with her new life in the camps.
This is a great book to use when discussing Japanese Internment Camps. This would a nice companion book to Baseball Saved Us or a good introduction book to The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.
August 12, 2024
This is a sweet picture book and beautifully illustrated. I read so many picture books I don’t usually track or review them, but I had to mention that this is written by the granddaughter of artist Hisako Hibi. Hisako Hibi was among the unjustly incarcerated Japanese Americans at Topaz that organized and taught art classes while in the internment camp. It captures the spirit of Hisako’s work, focused on how art and beauty helped sustain them during difficult times.
March 2, 2024
It’s a short illustrated book about Japan war and social condition in World War 2
November 14, 2025
i loveeeeee this art, so cute!!
November 2, 2010
Set during World War II in the Japanese interment camps in Utah, this picture book is a fascinating read for children ten years and older. It is the story of Mari, whose days get gloomier as her family is forced to stay an an interment camp in the middle of the dusty desert. Her parents worry about her disappearing happiness and curiosity. Then she begins art class and eventually opens up after a difficult first two sessions. She learns to express her emotions and what she misses through art. Mari also makes a new best friend and the companionship helps Mari get through the tough days at the camp. The sunflowers that would not grow in the desert soil eventually bloom, just as Mari eventually becomes a more content and less troubled child.
This picture book helps readers become aware of the harsh and unjust treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Similar to the book, Nasreen's Secret School, the author makes hope possible through friends and a self learning experience. I would definitely read this book to students and discuss the themes of courage, hope, and prejudice.
This picture book helps readers become aware of the harsh and unjust treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Similar to the book, Nasreen's Secret School, the author makes hope possible through friends and a self learning experience. I would definitely read this book to students and discuss the themes of courage, hope, and prejudice.
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January 5, 2025Really lovely and affecting. Doesn't oversimplify, but also doesn't overdo it. It works as an introduction to a shameful moment in American history and, for me, a more eye-opening experience because it really drove home how internment camps were little villages, not just "camps." I'd compare them more to the ghettos in Europe than the camps they had (for other more obvious reasons as well). But anyway, a good book, and not only is it great that it's bilingual because of its accessibility to more readers, but also because it drives home the fact that it was an issue of multicultural and intercultural interest.
April 11, 2024
Warning. This is one of those picture books intended for small children. Only the content is disturbing. I'd call it age-inappropriate.
Psychological it's like pills of pain, only given a crunchy sugar coating -- akin to M&Ms.
SURE, THE HISTORY OF AMERICA'S INTERNMENT CAMPS FOR JAPANESE CITIZENS HAPPENED
But how helpful is it to read a book on this topic to preschoolers?
Are those lovely illustrations really appropriate, give the subject matter?
Some adults believe that children are unintelligent and insensitive. I couldn't disagree more vehemently.
Their wide-open minds, their empathic hearts, are not going to think this is just a cute story about little Mari, learning to open up in art class.
RATING THIS BOOK, HOWEVER
My policy is to rate a book in terms of the intended audience. Here that audience could include either of these groups:
- Americans of Japanese ancestry, so they can help innocent little children to share the scars of victimization as family history.
- Lovers of all books about dreadful history with oppression, racism, the ugliest kinds of prejudice. (As if exposing children to this early on will, somehow, innoculate them from future pain.)
Oh, how they may love this sensitively told story of pain, pain, injustice, and pain!
According to my policy, this book merits FIVE STARS. But over my personal objections.
GOODREADERS, PLEASE CONSIDER THIS
Once you take away a child's innocence, nobody can replace it.
Please, spare your children under 13 any stories like this one. Whether it's history of the shameful Japenese Internment Camps or the Holocaust or Black History or any other story of great cruelty, done by one group of humans to another.
After 13, okay. Although, probably children old enough to learn about this topic are also strong enough readers to read chapter books, yes?
Psychological it's like pills of pain, only given a crunchy sugar coating -- akin to M&Ms.
SURE, THE HISTORY OF AMERICA'S INTERNMENT CAMPS FOR JAPANESE CITIZENS HAPPENED
But how helpful is it to read a book on this topic to preschoolers?
Are those lovely illustrations really appropriate, give the subject matter?
Some adults believe that children are unintelligent and insensitive. I couldn't disagree more vehemently.
Their wide-open minds, their empathic hearts, are not going to think this is just a cute story about little Mari, learning to open up in art class.
RATING THIS BOOK, HOWEVER
My policy is to rate a book in terms of the intended audience. Here that audience could include either of these groups:
- Americans of Japanese ancestry, so they can help innocent little children to share the scars of victimization as family history.
- Lovers of all books about dreadful history with oppression, racism, the ugliest kinds of prejudice. (As if exposing children to this early on will, somehow, innoculate them from future pain.)
Oh, how they may love this sensitively told story of pain, pain, injustice, and pain!
According to my policy, this book merits FIVE STARS. But over my personal objections.
GOODREADERS, PLEASE CONSIDER THIS
Once you take away a child's innocence, nobody can replace it.
Please, spare your children under 13 any stories like this one. Whether it's history of the shameful Japenese Internment Camps or the Holocaust or Black History or any other story of great cruelty, done by one group of humans to another.
After 13, okay. Although, probably children old enough to learn about this topic are also strong enough readers to read chapter books, yes?
November 26, 2018
Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, many Japanese-Americans were taken from their homes and sent to live in internment camp. Amy Lee-Tai has created an authentic story about the experiences that were had by thousands of people. In A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, we are told the story of Mari whose family had to leave their home in California and are now living in an internment camp. Upon coming to the camp, Mari is no longer her old self, not smiling or laughing the way that she always was. This is something that her family takes notice of. While she is very unhappy most of the time, she does find comfort in the memory of the beautiful garden she had back home. She even decided to plant some sunflowers at the camp to remind her more of her life in California. As the story progresses, she is able to return to her old self when her art her teacher tells her to draw something that made her happy before she moved to the camp. She starts to remember her garden and how much she loved it. Eventually, we also see that her sunflowers begin to grow.
April 13, 2019
“A place where sunflowers grow” is a short picture book set in an internment camp during World War II. Mari is the main character, and she is a Japanese American who is living in the internment camps with her family at this time. Mari wants to grow sunflowers, but it takes them a long time to grow because they are in the desert. Mari goes to art class in the internment camp, and has a hard time figuring out what to draw at first, but is later inspired to draw pictures of her old backyard. When she returns home that day, she sees that the sunflowers she planted are starting to go, and feels ok about her situation for a moment. This was not my favorite book, but I thought it was decent. There was a decent amount of information about life in the internment camps incorporated in it, but I feel like if it was given more attention, everything would flow better together. This would be a good supplementary book for talking about World War II.
August 2, 2020
I am going to be homeschooling my grandkids this year because of concerns about Covid-19. I want to start our school year with a mini unit on Japan. I am doing this because of the marvelous way Japanese students clean their own schools at the end of class. This is a custom we will have.
As part of the unit I have plans for a tea ceremony, origami, Japanese snacks, drink and books about Japan.
I myself did not learn about Japanese internment camps until my Asian daughter was assigned an essay arguing its positive attributes. Oh brother. But I digress.
I figured that I wanted my grandkids should learn about it earlier. This book is a bit too advanced for my kindergarten grandson but good for my 2nd grade granddaughter.
We will look at pictures of my father in WW II and then read this book. It has a soft message, just enough for a sensitive 7 year old.
As part of the unit I have plans for a tea ceremony, origami, Japanese snacks, drink and books about Japan.
I myself did not learn about Japanese internment camps until my Asian daughter was assigned an essay arguing its positive attributes. Oh brother. But I digress.
I figured that I wanted my grandkids should learn about it earlier. This book is a bit too advanced for my kindergarten grandson but good for my 2nd grade granddaughter.
We will look at pictures of my father in WW II and then read this book. It has a soft message, just enough for a sensitive 7 year old.
April 28, 2013
Nearly 70 years after the essentially unlawful internment of Japanese-Americans by a paranoid federal government and equally suspicious and racist American public, the granddaughters and grandsons of these Japanese compound internees are now telling the real stories about what life was like at these camps. Writer Ami Lee-Tai and illustrator Felicia Hoshino in "A Place Where Sunflowers Grow" paint an intimate picture daily experiences of Japanese-Americans as they attempted carve out a piece of dignity and normalcy to their lives which have suddenly been turned upside down.
The year is 1942, the United States has sent 120,000 innocent Japanese American citizens to live in barbed interment camps. The federal government and "native" Americans did not trust that Japanese Americans would be loyal to their new homeland, so they sent en masse to places away from the West Coast and to the dusty intermountain regions like Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Amy Lee-Tai has fictionalized the characters in her picture book, but the events are based on actual stories of her grandparents who lived at the internment camp. This gives the whole book a certain authenticity of experience and voice which permeates the reader's mind. We try to comprehend how these individuals could keep a sense of hope for a better future when suspiciously eyed by guards, living in the tar papered housing, and taking showers together like common cattle. What saved these two individuals and is the gist of Lee-Tai's story telling is that her grandparents were artists. Hanging the art inside their
one room home kept their aspirations for freedom and return to their actual home alive. What came out of this horrible experience demonstrates the perseverance of spirit and the inspiration that can flower from harsh conditions these individuals endured.
Mari is our central character. She lives with her older brother Kenji and mother and father. The parents are artists and teachers of art who have created the Topaz Art School on Block 7 within the internment camp. We Mari eating simple meals with other, all curiously noted by Mari as Japanese-Americans, learning together with other children in the makeshift school, and unfortunately taking showers together without stall door. It is communal living minus the privacy. Mrs. Hanamoto Mari's teacher wants Mari to "Draw something that makes you happy at Topaz." Mari just can't seem to come up with anything, so she draws, at the suggestion of the teacher, something that made her happy before she came here. This sparks Mari's imagination, and she shows it to Aiko her friend and eventually her mother and father; a brightly drawn picture of apple trees, swings, the sun, and a foreground of flowers from the backyard of her home from California. We then see Aiko and Mari running in the dusty and dirt filled streets of the internment buildings back to their "homes". They are dirty but are happy to have survived the watchful eyes of the guards who eyes are always on their movements and returned to their one room house.
The book does show Mari adjusting to camp life. She draws a picture of her new home, the barrack one, with green grass, big sunflowers, a bright sun, and two girls holding hands upstretched with happy smiles on their faces. Mari holds the drawing in the foreground while a hint of a smile crosses her face. The sunflower plants that Mari planted with her mother are beginning to grow, and there is a new sense of hope for a brighter future. Still, although I want to believe that Mari, Kenji, and her parents had some moments of laughter in the interment camp, and I'm sure the drawing was inspirational wish for hope from Kari, I have to believe there was much bitterness and a real sense of unjustice that doesn't across with this somewhat saccharine ending to the story. Maybe the grandchildren's success and modern America with its many opportunities and increasingly less racial tone cannot imagine a more ambiguous set of feelings from the Japanese-American grandparents who lived this experience. Much time has passed, and three generations later, the stories become more about endurance and persistence from the grandchildren's viewpoint than an visceral and humiliating experience which it clearly was for these Amy Lee-Tai's grandparents. Still, the reader is drawn into the reality of the story, and we do get a glimpse into how life was lived in an internment camp.
The illustrations by Felicia Hoshino utilize an interesting combination of watercolors, ink, tissue paper, and paint. The impact on the reader is that each character has sharply drawn reality to them, but the watercolors and paints hues are gently fused together in warm and muted tones. There is a certain loving attention to family and simple details like a rug, a dustpan, and the era's respectable and utilitarian style of dress which endears the reader to our character's plight. Also, the two predominant colors are tan/light brown, and a pale green. I sense that Hoshino wanted to impart on every page the withering heat, dust, and desolation that is the Utah desert where they lived with the symbolic pale green and brightly drawn art that kept these people's inner spirit alive. English and Japanese languages are on every page, so this book could be read by native English speakers and Japanese-Americans in a whole group class reading. Other books about this sad part of American history from the Japanese-American viewpoint include "Baseball Saved Us" by Ken Mochizuki, "The Bracelet" by Yoshishiko Uchida which gives readers another insight into internment life, and "Passage to Freedom: the Shugihara Story" by Ken Mochizuki.
The year is 1942, the United States has sent 120,000 innocent Japanese American citizens to live in barbed interment camps. The federal government and "native" Americans did not trust that Japanese Americans would be loyal to their new homeland, so they sent en masse to places away from the West Coast and to the dusty intermountain regions like Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Amy Lee-Tai has fictionalized the characters in her picture book, but the events are based on actual stories of her grandparents who lived at the internment camp. This gives the whole book a certain authenticity of experience and voice which permeates the reader's mind. We try to comprehend how these individuals could keep a sense of hope for a better future when suspiciously eyed by guards, living in the tar papered housing, and taking showers together like common cattle. What saved these two individuals and is the gist of Lee-Tai's story telling is that her grandparents were artists. Hanging the art inside their
one room home kept their aspirations for freedom and return to their actual home alive. What came out of this horrible experience demonstrates the perseverance of spirit and the inspiration that can flower from harsh conditions these individuals endured.
Mari is our central character. She lives with her older brother Kenji and mother and father. The parents are artists and teachers of art who have created the Topaz Art School on Block 7 within the internment camp. We Mari eating simple meals with other, all curiously noted by Mari as Japanese-Americans, learning together with other children in the makeshift school, and unfortunately taking showers together without stall door. It is communal living minus the privacy. Mrs. Hanamoto Mari's teacher wants Mari to "Draw something that makes you happy at Topaz." Mari just can't seem to come up with anything, so she draws, at the suggestion of the teacher, something that made her happy before she came here. This sparks Mari's imagination, and she shows it to Aiko her friend and eventually her mother and father; a brightly drawn picture of apple trees, swings, the sun, and a foreground of flowers from the backyard of her home from California. We then see Aiko and Mari running in the dusty and dirt filled streets of the internment buildings back to their "homes". They are dirty but are happy to have survived the watchful eyes of the guards who eyes are always on their movements and returned to their one room house.
The book does show Mari adjusting to camp life. She draws a picture of her new home, the barrack one, with green grass, big sunflowers, a bright sun, and two girls holding hands upstretched with happy smiles on their faces. Mari holds the drawing in the foreground while a hint of a smile crosses her face. The sunflower plants that Mari planted with her mother are beginning to grow, and there is a new sense of hope for a brighter future. Still, although I want to believe that Mari, Kenji, and her parents had some moments of laughter in the interment camp, and I'm sure the drawing was inspirational wish for hope from Kari, I have to believe there was much bitterness and a real sense of unjustice that doesn't across with this somewhat saccharine ending to the story. Maybe the grandchildren's success and modern America with its many opportunities and increasingly less racial tone cannot imagine a more ambiguous set of feelings from the Japanese-American grandparents who lived this experience. Much time has passed, and three generations later, the stories become more about endurance and persistence from the grandchildren's viewpoint than an visceral and humiliating experience which it clearly was for these Amy Lee-Tai's grandparents. Still, the reader is drawn into the reality of the story, and we do get a glimpse into how life was lived in an internment camp.
The illustrations by Felicia Hoshino utilize an interesting combination of watercolors, ink, tissue paper, and paint. The impact on the reader is that each character has sharply drawn reality to them, but the watercolors and paints hues are gently fused together in warm and muted tones. There is a certain loving attention to family and simple details like a rug, a dustpan, and the era's respectable and utilitarian style of dress which endears the reader to our character's plight. Also, the two predominant colors are tan/light brown, and a pale green. I sense that Hoshino wanted to impart on every page the withering heat, dust, and desolation that is the Utah desert where they lived with the symbolic pale green and brightly drawn art that kept these people's inner spirit alive. English and Japanese languages are on every page, so this book could be read by native English speakers and Japanese-Americans in a whole group class reading. Other books about this sad part of American history from the Japanese-American viewpoint include "Baseball Saved Us" by Ken Mochizuki, "The Bracelet" by Yoshishiko Uchida which gives readers another insight into internment life, and "Passage to Freedom: the Shugihara Story" by Ken Mochizuki.
March 21, 2018
This story is based on the author's family experiences living in an internment camp in the Utah desert during WWII.
Mari and her family were relocated from their beautiful California home to a tarpaper barrack in a desolated camp in Topaz, Utah because the United States government didn't trust Japanese or even Japanese Americans during WWII. Mari's parents worry about her and encourage her to take advantage of the Topaz Art School in the camp. While there, she meets a friend and is inspired to draw the sunflowers she hopes will grow.
The art work in the book and the Japanese written characters, along with the English words, gives this book authenticity unique to the Japanese Americans who lived this experience.
Mari and her family were relocated from their beautiful California home to a tarpaper barrack in a desolated camp in Topaz, Utah because the United States government didn't trust Japanese or even Japanese Americans during WWII. Mari's parents worry about her and encourage her to take advantage of the Topaz Art School in the camp. While there, she meets a friend and is inspired to draw the sunflowers she hopes will grow.
The art work in the book and the Japanese written characters, along with the English words, gives this book authenticity unique to the Japanese Americans who lived this experience.
June 20, 2018
Summary: This text takes in the western United States at an internment camp during WWII. The main character is a young girl who struggles to comprehend and understand how her life has changed because of her migration. This book explains how her life has changed and the reaction towards this huge change in her life.
Review: I think this is an important book to use while discussing migration and the effects it has on characters by comparing it to students own lives and make connections between the text and students. I thought this book was filled with informational about the internment camps and her living conditions while living in barracks.
Review: I think this is an important book to use while discussing migration and the effects it has on characters by comparing it to students own lives and make connections between the text and students. I thought this book was filled with informational about the internment camps and her living conditions while living in barracks.
October 16, 2018
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow really shows the harsh reality of what happened to the Japanese People that lived in the United States after World War II had happened. There was a particular illustration that really struck me and was quite hard to take in. If you look at page 8 it shows a service man in a tower with a rifle. This is the very sad reality after Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese. Then our country made these horrible camps with only Japanese people was very sickening. Even though this camp seemed like such a dark place Mari loved the sunflowers and drew them beautifully in the book at the end. This book really illustrates such a dark period in American History.
December 5, 2017
This book is a part of the darker parts of United States history that no one really talks about. It looks at a child in the Japanese Internment Camps that were created during World War II. This is heart-breaking, especially because of the struggle the girl goes through trying to find something that makes her happy during that time. This is an important topic for children to know about, especially because it might be glazed over if the United States is ashamed about it, but we have to know about it so that it does not happen again.
Lee-Tai, A. Ill. Hoshino, F. (2015, January 15). A Place Where Sunflowers Grow. New York, NY: Children’s Book Press.
Lee-Tai, A. Ill. Hoshino, F. (2015, January 15). A Place Where Sunflowers Grow. New York, NY: Children’s Book Press.
May 8, 2020
This book is a perfect book for bilingual children. Each page has English and Japanese to make it more inclusive for all children. The young girl, Mary, and her family were forced to live in a military camp in Utah during world war 2. Art is very important in this story her parents are artists and she attends art school in the camp. They have public showers and bathrooms and shared eating areas. The story is a historical fiction book based on true events and is to help teach and encourage children and the world to not repeat their mistakes.
November 14, 2024
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow is a historical fiction picture book set in a Japanese World War II internment camp in Utah. It’s a gloomy place during a time in American history when people of Japanese descent were forced to pack lightly, leave their homes, and face imprisonment. The story follows a young girl named Mari who finds hope through the kindness of others, friendship, art, and the planting of sunflowers. This story left my heart feeling heavy, but it’s important to read about injustice and the darker moments of the past so that we never forget them.
October 16, 2017
This is an amazing bi-lingual story about Mari who is interned with many other Japanese American families at Topaz. Mari misses desperately her old home and has so many questions that she's afraid to ask. This story is cool because you can read it in Japanese or English! There is symbolism in the sunflowers in this book. Mari didn't know if they would bloom or if she could ever be happy at Topaz but luckily both happen!
December 7, 2019
I loved this book! I feel that it had a very powerful message that hope can still be found in the darkest of times. I was even a bit shocked and saddened because I learned about World War II as a student, however I did not remember learning that even Japanese-American citizens were sent to interment camps. It reminded me that there is always something to learn even if we think we know a lot about a particular subject.
March 21, 2022
I really loved reading this book. The story of a little girl in a camp were nothing grows during World War 2, this book discusses a topic that is rarely ever spoken of. By reading this book I was able to see into the perspective of all of the people that were trapped in camps because of the culture they came from. This book is a great and beautiful way to talk about this horrific time in America's history.
November 18, 2022
This amazing book has the story told through the eyes of a young girl who lives in a Japanese internment camp in America. She shows the internment camps as a less happy place than where she lived before but shows that the people living there make the best of what is given and doesn't show the depressing and horrible side of the internment camps. This book also has a Japanese and English translation of the story on each page, making this a great book for English Language Learners.
December 5, 2017
Lee-Tai, A. (2012) A place where sunflowers grow. New York: Children's Book Press.
This is a story about a family in an interment camp, and the hardships that the young girl goes through specifically. These sunflowers are planted and eventually grow, making life there easier on everyone. She learns to find her passion in art. This is written in both English and Japanese.
This is a story about a family in an interment camp, and the hardships that the young girl goes through specifically. These sunflowers are planted and eventually grow, making life there easier on everyone. She learns to find her passion in art. This is written in both English and Japanese.
December 6, 2019
This was a great book that uses the setting of World War II as the focus on the tone and mood for the people living here during this time. Even with the negative looking barb wired fence going around the camp, Mari used her fathers guidance and planted a handful of sunflower seeds. This book was so simple and to the point and they were able to truly show the beauty in such tragedies.
December 8, 2023
This book shows a truly rough and sad time in history and how hope and beauty can grow in the darkest places. The beautiful and intricate illustrations convey a deeper understanding of what it was like in those internment camps. This story can spark hope for the future and shows that through the hard times, the human spirit perseveres.
January 21, 2024
What a beautiful book! The connection the author has her parents being interred is powerful. I really like how she captures how children at times don't know what to draw, write or make.
I really enjoyedenjoyed the Japanese translation on each page. I had to practice a bit so I could read it to my students, but they loved hearing me speak another language.
I really enjoyedenjoyed the Japanese translation on each page. I had to practice a bit so I could read it to my students, but they loved hearing me speak another language.
May 21, 2024
This book is in English and Japanese. It tells the story of in world war 2 when Japanese Americans where sent to interment camps. The story is told from the perspective of a young girl. This is a part of history that is not talked about and often brushed aside so I was happy to see this book on the shelf at my library.
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February 7, 2025A girl and her family are trapped in a Japanese camp in the US. This girl tries to grow sunflowers to show a symbol of patience, resilience, and hope. This book can be used in future classrooms to show the importance it is to do anything you can to show that there is always hope when you are not in a great situation and need to find joy in where you are.
June 10, 2017
A story about a young girl who grows up in a Japanese internment camp in the United States during WWII. Well written and is a very important part of history. Something that I believe children should learn about while they are young.
September 13, 2017
Most books about different cultures just explain in English how life is different. However, this book took an extra step by including the Japanese language. This book will also allow me to use this as a window or a mirror.
October 27, 2017
Mari and her family have been forced to leave their home and are detained in Utah’s Topaz Relocation Center during World War II. Mari finds patience, courage and persistence in drawing and gardening, despite the bleak conditions.
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