Author: SAY, ALLEN
Title: Grandfathers Journey: Caldecott Medal Winner
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. Hardcover. ISBN: 0590488643. Illustrated by Allen Say. Hardcover is brown cover with darker brown spine, gold lettering on spine. DJ has gold Caldecott Medal on front. Endpapers are brown. Extensively illustrated with lush, almost full page color illustrations by the author on every page. Pages are clean and tight, showing very light signs of loving use. "Through compelling reminiscences of his grandfather's life in America and Japan, Allen Say delivers a poignant account of his family's unique cross-cultural experience. He warmly conveys his own love for his two countries and describes the strong and constant desire to be in both places at once : When in one country, he invariably misses the other. His grandfather, he tells us, would understand". Oversized, 2.5#. ; Color Illustrations; 0.5 x 11.6 x 9.5 Inches; 32 pages; Cover has slight bumping. DJ has light shelf wear, bumping, rubbing/scuffing.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0590488643 Japan: Japanese History; Japanese American History; American History; Immigrant History; Immigrants; Cultural History; Social History; Family Customs; Juvenile Cultural History American History Art Orient/Asia Geography Biography/Memoirs/Journa