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Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japanese Prison Camp During World War II
112 pp.
| National |
October, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4263-0321-0$15.95
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LibraryISBN 978-1-4263-0322-7$23.90
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4-6
With Herman J. Viola. In 1942, four-year-old Annelex, her mother, and grandmother, Dutch citizens living in the Dutch East Indies, were interned by the Japanese. Recapturing a child's-eye view, Layson narrates simply, letting events speak for themselves. With its similarities and contrasts to Japanese internment in the U.S. and to Holocaust accounts, this is a worthy addition to the World War II canon. Timeline.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2009