About the Author:
Joy Kogawa is the author of Obasan and four books of poems. Born in Vancouver, she now lives in Toronto. In Naomi's Road Joy Kogawa recalls the years of dislocation her own family suffered during the Second World War.
Matt Gould is an artist who lives on a horse farm in Alberta.
From School Library Journal:
Grade 4-6 This fictionalized work is drawn from Kogawa's adult book, Obasan (Godine, 1982). Naomi, the narrator of the story, relates her memories as a Japanese-Canadian child during World War II. After Pearl Harbor, five-year-old Naomi and her brother Steven are taken first to an internment camp and then to a farm in Alberta. The family is reunited after the war, when they endure new hardships, but Naomi now is able to see the world without bitterness or rancor. This gentle story is told in lyrical language and is similar to Shizuye Takashima's A Child in Prison Camp (Tundra, 1971), as both are quiet statements of a family's struggle to overcome a brutal and painful time in their lives. Kogawa's book is on an easier reading level than Sheila Garrigue's The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito (Bradbury, 1985), which deals with the internment of an elderly man and his family, but both are suitable for the same age level. Gould's ink illustrations lack the sensitivity of the text. Children would probably not read this book on their own, so it would be best read aloud to a class studying this period of history. Lorraine Douglas, Winnipeg Public Library, Manitoba, Canada
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