Japanese Culture

Contributor's Form (list #246)

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• ?? "Sayonara, Mrs. Kackelman"! In any case, this is a whimsical, funny and very informative picture book about a boy and girl who blow off a piano lesson (with Mrs. Kackelman) and go to visit Japan.
• Brenner, B. & Takaya, J. (1996). Chibi: A true story from Japan. New York: Clarion Books.
• Brown, J.M. (1994). Thanksgiving at Obaachan's. Chicago: Polychrome.
• Bunting, E. (1998). So far from the sea. New York: Clarion Books.
• Coerr, Eleanor Illustrated by: Young, Ed Sadako (1993) When nine-year-old Sadako Sasaki is hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, she races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
• Gollub, Matthew: Cool Melons Turn to Frogs: The Life and Poems of Issa (picture book for older children about the famous Japanese Haiku writer)
• Havill, Juanuta: Sato and the Elephants
• Hoobler. Dororthy The Japanese American Family Album
• Inada, Kazumi Yumoto. Drawing the Line by Lawson Fusao The Friends
• Johnston, T. (1996). Fishing Sunday. New York: Tambourine Books.
• Johnston, T. Fishing Sunday
• Little, M. (1996). Yoshiko and the foreigner. Canada: Harper Collins.
• Lynch-Brown, C. & Tomlinson, C. (1999). Essentials of children's literature. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
• Martin, Rafe Mysterious Tales of Japan
• Melmed, L. (1997). Little oh. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books.
• Melmed, Laura Krauss Illustrated by: LaMarche, Jim Title: Little Oh (1997) A mother tells her son the story of Little Oh, a girl made of paper who becomes separated from her human mother.
• Mochizuki, K. (1997). Passage to freedom: The Sugihara story. New York: Lee & Low Books.
• Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us, a picture book (illustrations by Dom Lee) from the Japanese-American internment experience in WWII (if you're interested in the Japanese-American culture, too). He has a second book called Heroes.
• Mochizuki, Ken. Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee also collaborated on a third book, PASSAGE TO FREEDOM: THE SUGIHARA STORY, which tells the true story of Chiune Sugihara who, with his family's encouragement, saved thousands of Jews in Lithuania during World War II.
• Mori, Kyoko "One Bird".
• Mori, Kyoko "Shizuko's Daughter"
• Paterson, Katherine Illustrated by: Dillon, Leo & Diane Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (1990) A pair of mandarin ducks, separated by a cruel lord who wishes to possess the drake for his colorful beauty, reward a compassionate couple, Yasuko and Shozo, who risk their lives to reunite the ducks.
• Sakaii, Kimiko: Sachiko Means Happiness
• Say, A. (1993). Grandfather's Journey. Boston: Houghton Miffl
• Say, Allen "Grandfather's Journey" is the story of his grandfather going back and forth.
• Say, Allen "Tree of Cranes" is a story that takes place in Japan, about a Japanese boy whose mother grew up in the United States, and how she celebrates Christmas in their home. I can't remember which of his other picture books take place in Japan ... but there are a few.
• Tunnell, Michael O. and George W. Chilcoat The Children of Topaz
• Yashima, Taro, Yoshiko Uchida and others.
• Yumoto "The Spring Tone"

   

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