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Mochizuki, Ken

Baseball Saved Us

32 pp. | Lee | October, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-880000-01-4 $17.95 | Paper ISBN 978-1-880000-19-9 $9.95
New ed. (1993)
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Dom Lee. This poignant story of a young Japanese American boy trying to make sense of the world was one of the first American picture books to overtly talk about Japanese American internment and acknowledge racism and its effects on a child. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition contains moving author and illustrator notes: Mochizuki hopes that the book has been a "role model"; Lee fears "history repeating itself."
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2019

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