Hiroshima No Pika

Author	Ken Mochizuki
ISBN	1880000199

Shorty and his family, along with thousands of Japanese Americans, are sent to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Fighting the heat and dust of the desert, Shorty and his father decide to build a baseball diamond and form a league in order to boost the spirits of the internees. Shorty...

Author	Kazumi Yumoto
ISBN	0374324603

People come to this book, read the story and simply like that, they are engrossed with the book. They could not do anything else than turn pages after pages, and when they close the book, they do so with a sense of longing and a sadness that is long to disperse.

When I first opened the book, I had thought,...

Author	Roberto Innocenti
ISBN	1568461895

This is a horror story. Highly disturbing. Who the heck is this aimed at?!

It’s about the horrors of war/the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a young (non-Jewish) German girl who doesn’t fully understand the situation of the war going on. She does see some suffering though and tries...

Author	Komako Sakai
ISBN	0545013216

The best snow day book since Ezra Jack Keats's THE SNOWY DAY...

A young rabbit wakes up to wonderful news: A snow day! School is canceled, and the day that follows is rich with the magic and delight of the falling snow. And yet there is longing too, as the young rabbit and his mother wait for news of...

Author	Yukio Tsuchiya
ISBN	0395861373

Although Yukio Tsuchiya's 1988 picture book Faithful Elephants (well actually, the author wrote the story in the immediate post WWII period, in 1951, but this here picture book was originally published in 1988) most definitely has a strong and also powerful anti-war (and thus also a pro peace) message,...

Author	Ana Maria Machado
ISBN	9681654633

Leído para #LIJFeministaLat

http://www.neapoulain.com/2017/12/reg...

Este fue uno de los libros que este año leí para el evento especial de #LIJFeministaLat y uno de los libros principales por los cuales me empecé a interesar que estaban escribiendo los latinoamericanos...

Author	Karen Hesse
ISBN	0439435404

Newbery medalist Karen Hesse tells a harrowing, true story about life in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
When Karen Hesse came upon a short article about cats out-foxing the Gestapo at the train station in Warsaw during WWII, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. The result is this stirring account...

Author	Chih-Yuan Chen
ISBN	1929132670

Originally published in Chih-Yuan Chen's native Taiwan, and inspired by the life-story of one of the author/artist's American friends, who was ethnically Korean, but adopted by a non-Korean family, Guji Guji follows the adventures of a young "crocoduck," as he finds his rightful place in the world,...

Author	Davide Calì
ISBN	0375845003

I pulled this book off my shelves when thinking about Dresden this week. I love this book. It says so much using so little. Two soldiers, sitting opposite each other in their separate foxholes, are enemies because their manuals told them they were enemies.

One solider claims his enemy isn't...

Author

Deborah Wiles

John Henry swims better than anyone I know.
He crawls like a catfish,
blows bubbles like a swamp monster,
but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me.
He's not allowed.
Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love...

Author	Ana Maria Machado
ISBN	1929132115

Lo volví a leer despues de muchos años. Y que chido, que bonito cuento, cuantos recuerdos me trajo. (Para #LIJFeministaLat).

http://www.neapoulain.com/2017/08/min...

Niña bonita es un recuerdo de mi infancia que siempre he cargado conmigo. Es un libro que estaba en los libros...

Author

Tô Hoài

Tác phẩm miêu tả cuộc phiêu lưu của một chú Dế Mèn qua thế giới loài vật và loài người. Những vấn đề nóng hổi như là: cái thiện và cái ác, chiến tranh và hòa bình, lí tưởng và lẽ sống được thể hiện một cách nhẹ nhàng, tinh tế...

Author

Aya Kito

This diary written by Aya Kitō (July 19, 1962 - May 23, 1988) was published shortly before her death.

Aya Kitō was diagnosed with a disease called spinocerebellar degeneration when she was 15 years old. The disease causes the person to lose control over their body, but because the person can...