The Horn Book Guide

SPORTS

Moss, Marissa

Barbed Wire Baseball

48 pp. | Abrams | April, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4197-0521-2 $18.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Kenichi Zenimura was known as the father of Japanese American baseball, first as a player and later a manager. But after Pearl Harbor, Zeni found himself in an internment camp, and the only way he could make the desolate place feel like home was to build a baseball field. Bold Japanese calligraphy brush-and-ink illustrations depict the painstaking work involved--and Zeni’s joy at playing.

Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2013