Author: SAY, ALLEN
Title: Grandfather's Journey
Description: Boston: HMH Books for Young Readers, 1993. Hardcover. ISBN: 0395570352. CALDECOTT MEDAL BOOK Series; Color Illustrations; 9 3/4 x 12; 32 pages; Hard cover has brown spine with gold lettering; slight rubbing to boards. DJ has light rubbing, scuffing. Pages are clean and tight. 1/8" tear at bottom of front end paper. Lavishly illustrated with color pictures on every page. Home becomes elusive in this story about immigration and acculturation, pieced together through old pictures and salvaged family tales. Both the narrator and his grandfather long to return to Japan, but when they do, they feel anonymous and confused: "The funny thing is, the moment I am in one country, I am homesick for the other." stamped on the front of the DJ is the medallion for a Caldecott Medal winner.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0395570352 Japanese History; Japan: Immigrant History; Asian Americans; Cultural History; Juvenile Literature; Childrens Literature; Social History; Transportation History; Juvenile Cultural History Education Geography Biography/Memoirs/Journals Japan Soc