Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII - Paperback
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California Reading Association's Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Awards - Honor
Notable Children's Books from ALSC "Shimizu's Japanese brush and ink illustrations, digitally layered with dusty colors suggestive of the arid relocation camp, are a visual feast, from the patterned swirls of battleship steam and desert dust, to the series of depictions of Zenimura in motion, to the rhythmic composition of the female detainees stitching the potato-sack uniforms." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII - Paperback
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by Marissa Moss (Author), Yuko Shimizu (Illustrator)
"Moss is a skilled author of historical narrative nonfiction for young readers; her tale is both well researched and well told. But it's the visually stunning, sensitive illustrations by the hugely talented Shimizu that make the book a standout." --New York Times Book Review
Author Marissa Moss and illustrator Yuko Shimizu's Barbed Wire Baseball is a picture book that movingly tells a true story set in a Japanese American internment camp in World War II. During World War II, Japanese American baseball player Kenichi "Zeni" Zenimura was sent to an internment camp in the Arizona desert. But even behind barbed wire, Zeni refused to give up the game he loved. With grit, determination, and a deep belief in the power of baseball, he carved a field from the dust and built a team that brought hope and dignity to thousands. As a young boy, Kenichi Zenimura (Zeni) wanted to be a baseball player, even though everyone told him he was too small. He grew up to become a successful athlete, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family were sent to one of several internment camps established in the U.S. for people of Japanese ancestry. Zeni brought the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense of hope, and became known as the "Father of Japanese American Baseball." A California Book Award Gold Medal WinnerCalifornia Reading Association's Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Awards - Honor
Notable Children's Books from ALSC "Shimizu's Japanese brush and ink illustrations, digitally layered with dusty colors suggestive of the arid relocation camp, are a visual feast, from the patterned swirls of battleship steam and desert dust, to the series of depictions of Zenimura in motion, to the rhythmic composition of the female detainees stitching the potato-sack uniforms." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Author Biography
Marissa Moss has written and illustrated many books for children, including the popular Amelia's Notebook series, as well as Nurse, Soldier, Spy and A Soldier's Secret. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Yuko Shimizu is an illustrator and comics artist best known for the cover of the graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: The Dream Hunters. She lives in New York City.
Number of Pages: 48
Dimensions: 0.2 x 10.8 x 8.8 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: March 08, 2016
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Quiz Name: Barbed Wire Baseball
Interest Level: Lower Grades, K-3
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 0.5
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