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Say, Allen

Grandfather's Journey: 20th Anniversary Edition

32 pp. | Houghton | November, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-544-05050-1 $17.99
New ed. (1993)

(1) K-3 As a young man, Say's grandfather travels throughout America, eventually returning to Japan. Say, who lived in California when he wrote this book, finds "the moment I am in one country, I am homesick for the other. I think I know my grandfather now." The immigrant experience has rarely been so poignantly evoked as it is in this narrative, accompanied by soft-toned watercolors. This edition includes a one-page introduction by the author.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 1993