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Grandfather's Journey (Caldecott Medal Book)
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Home becomes elusive in this story about immigration and acculturation, pieced together through old pictures and salvaged family tales. Both the narrator and his grandfather long to return to Japan, but when they do, they feel anonymous and confused: "The funny thing is, the moment I am in one country, I am homesick for the other." Allen Say's prose i... »
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How My Parents Learned to Eat (Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books)
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very cute story about differences in American and japanese food etiquette, utensils, etc and overcoming differences to end in a marriage of cultures...a little questionable about the age of the girl who is dating an American sailor...but otherwise a cute story..(back then, not uncommon to get married young....) ... »
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Tea with Milk
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Tea with Milk by Allen Say shows a foreigner's emotions in a different country. It also is a realistic example of perseverance. How one cannot accept but still adapt a country as home.
Masako is not happy with Japan and is having trouble coping with the differences from America until she finds something that evokes retrospective thoughts of... »
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Kamishibai Man
My wife and I perform kamishibai stories at local schools, libraries, and cultural festivals, and we always take Kamishibai Man along to show audiences. T... »
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Allison
This book is the story of a young Asian child who becomes angry and alienated from her Caucasian parents when she recognizes that she has been adopted. H... »
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Emma's Rug
Among the books I collect for children as a teacher is a box where I place those that attempt to discuss creative inspiration, creative process. When a cl... »
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Tree of Cranes
This autobiographical story of author Allen Say's discovery of Christmas is gentle and beautiful. As a little boy in Japan, he wasn't supposed to play ne... »
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The Bicycle Man (Sandpiper)
Here's another Reading Rainbow book for ya. While Levar Burton used this particular title as a springboard for discussing the history of the wheel, I'm g... »
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