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“My intent was not to evaluate how correctly an American writer would portray American and Japanese cultures,” Jagusch said in a recent interview. It’s not always a pretty picture, with stereotypes, caricatures and exoticism dominating the early years, but it has also resulted in beautiful stories, pictures and narratives that will last for generations. The gorgeously illustrated, 385-page book is a window into both cultures as they have evolved over the past two centuries, but its focus is on the stories and illustrations that Americans have chosen to show their children about Japan. That’s the brilliant manner in which Sybille Jagusch, chief of the Library’s Children’s Literature Center, views the relationship between Japan and the United States in her new book, “Japan and American Children’s Books.” It’s published by Rutgers University Press in association with the Library. They’re written by adults, though, so in a looking-through-the-other-end-of-the-telescope way, they also tell us a lot about the older generation that writes, illustrates and publishes them. They’re often our first exposure to new and different people, places and cultures. Published by the Library and Rutgers University Press.Īs children, books are one of our first ways of experiencing the wider world. “Japan and American Children’s Books,” by Sybille Jagusch.

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* "Yardley's hushed, realistic paintings add to the poignancy of Uchida's narrative, and help to underscore the absurdity and injustice suffered by Japanese American families such as Emi's. "How will I ever remember my best friend?" she asks herself. But on the first day of camp, when Emi discovers she has lost her heart bracelet, she can't help wanting to cry. For her mother's sake, Emi doesn't say how unhappy she is. The United States and Japan are at war. Seven-year-old Emi doesn't want to leave her friends, her school, her house yet as her mother tells her, they have no choice, because they are Japanese-American.

Yoshiko Uchida draws on her own childhood as a Japanese-American during World War II in an internment camp to tell the poignant story of a young girl's discovery of the power of memory.Įmi and her family are being sent to a place called an internment camp, where all Japanese-Americans must go.