Ken Mochizuki is the author of the picture books Be Water, My Friend: The Early Years of Bruce Lee (reviewed here), Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story (reviewed here), Baseball Saved Us (reviewed here), Heroes, and the young adult novel Beacon Hill Boys. Having spent the past few days with Ken Mochizuki and his books, [...]
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee is a wonderful picture book for younger readers to introduce them to a part of American history, particularly the relocation of Japanese Americans from their homes to internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
“Shorty” was thus nicknamed because he [...]
Journey to Topaz by Yoshicku Uchida was recommended to me by Becky at Becky’s Book Reviews when I asked for an author with the last name beginning with U. I knew right away that this was the book for me and I almost feel like I’m come full circle this year on the topic of [...]
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka is exactly the type of book that I love.
When The Emperor Was Divine is the story of a single family in California during WWII. They could be like any other family. But they’re not. They’re Japanese. And being Japanese during WWII was anything but easy.
The family in [...]
I rarely browse books at the library for several reasons. For starters my reading list has seemingly a billion books on it, so I normally have a good idea of what I want to read. I usually have not only my holds maxed out, but my husbands as well and I [...]
