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A young boy, aware of his grandmother's forgetfulness, helps her recall a time when she was a kindergarten teacher teaching her students about hummingbirds and their nests.
A young boy sees a baby bird quivering in the hands of a neighborhood bully. Suddenly, he wants the orphan sparrow more than anything. He trades all his treasures for the bird and calls him Kozo, Little Boy. But how will he keep Kozo alive? Caldecott Medalist Allen Say's tale of ...
"When an old man takes a morning walk, he is startled by a paper airplane overhead. As he follows it through strangely familiar places, he glimpses his reflection and realizes a shocking fact: he is now a young man. Could it be that he is getting younger and younger with each per...
A young artist finds that her creativity comes from within when the rug that she had always relied upon for inspiration is destroyed.
A Japanese boy learns of Christmas when his mother decorates a pine tree with paper cranes.
After many years of retirement, an old Kamishibai man--a Japanese street performer who tells stories and sells candies--decides to make his rounds once more even though such entertainment declined after the advent of television.
A young boy and his father become closer friends during a camping trip in the mountains.
After growing up near San Francisco, a young Japanese woman returns with her parents to their native Japan, but she feels foreign and out of place.
After falling in love with Japan as a little girl, Erika becomes a teacher and fulfills her childhood dream by moving to a remote Japanese island.
A cherry tree growing from the top of the wicked landlord's head is the beginning of his misfortunes and a better life for the poor villagers.
An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.
A poor Japanese woman maneuvers events to change the lazy habits of her son.
The New Girl at school plays the violin so beautifully that Almond gets lost in the music, but she also feels sad because she does not know if she herself has any talent at all-- until the school play, when with the encouragement of her mother, her teacher, and the New Girl, she ...
When a young Asian-American boy wakes up one morning with the face of an old man, he has trouble convincing people that he is still himself.
Yuriko, teased at school for her unusual name and Japanese ancestry, yearns to be more ordinary until her father reminds her of how special she is.
When Allison realizes that she looks more like her favorite doll than like her parents, she comes to terms with this unwelcomed discovery through the help of a stray cat.
An assignment to paint a large billboard in the desert changes the life of an aspiring artist.
A Japanese American farmer recounts her agricultural successes and setbacks and her enduring love of dance. Based on the true life story of Alice Sumida, who with her husband Mark, established the largest gladiola bulb farm in the country during the last half of the twentieth cen...
"Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan's premier cartoonist. DRAWING FROM MEMORY is Allen Say's own story of his path to becoming the renowned artist he is tod...