Grandfather's Journey
Through compelling reminiscences of his grandfather's life in America and Japan, Allen Say delivers a poignant account of his family's unique crosscultural experience. He warmly conveys his won love for his two countries and describes the strong and constant desire to be in both places at ones:...
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Through compelling reminiscences of his grandfather's life in America and Japan, Allen Say delivers a poignant account of his family's unique crosscultural experience. He warmly conveys his won love for his two countries and describes the strong and constant desire to be in both places at ones: When in one country, he invariably misses the other. His grandfather, he tells us, would understand. Illustrated with exquisite paintings, intimate and memorable, Grandfather's Journey is Allen Say's most personal and remarkable picture yet of the bridging of two cultures.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780395570357 (0395570352)
Publish date: October 25th 1993
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Grandfather's Journey is a book about a young boy who retells his grandfather's journey coming from Japan to America. The text illustrates all of the obstacles and hardships his grandfather had to overcome while inhabiting a new country. This text can be used in a 3-5th grade classroom during a less...
I took my niece to the library on Sunday and we ended up sitting right next to the Caldecott winners. I've been wanting to read Grandfather' Journey for awhile so I picked it up. It's a good story (though I object to the "white, black, red, yellow men" bit... those aren't the exact words Say uses,...
I really really enjoyed this book. Short sentences and great story telling that all children will enjoy.
I loved this book. The illustrations were evocative and sensitively done, and the text was deceptively simple. One for the permanent collection.
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