Tsunami!
by:
Ed Young (author)
Kimiko Kajikawa (author)
Ojiisan, the oldest and wealthiest man in the village, doesn?t join the others at the rice ceremony. Instead he watches from his balcony. He feels something is coming?something he can?t describe. When he sees the monster wave pulling away from the beach, he knows. Tsunami! But the villagers below...
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Ojiisan, the oldest and wealthiest man in the village, doesn?t join the others at the rice ceremony. Instead he watches from his balcony. He feels something is coming?something he can?t describe. When he sees the monster wave pulling away from the beach, he knows. Tsunami! But the villagers below can?t see the danger. Will Ojiisan risk everything he has to save them? Can he? Illustrated in stunning collage by Caldecott winner Ed Young, here is the unforgettable story of how one man?s simple sacrifi ce saved hundreds of lives. An extraordinary celebration of both the power of nature and the power each of us holds within.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399250064 (0399250069)
ASIN: 399250069
Publish date: February 5th 2009
Publisher: Philomel
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
My niece informed me that she wants to give this book five stars, so five stars it is! She was quite taken with Tsunami, which is a based on a true story about a man named Hamaguchi Goryou who, in 1854, saved many in his village from a tsunami that followed an earthquake.As the danger of the tsunam...
I understood that the image of the wave might be too disturbing, so I read this last night to screen for the PandaBat. As much as I appreciated the story, which is an amazingly positive one for a disaster book, the art actually took away from it. The pictures were too chaotic or unclear or just plai...
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