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Fish for Jimmy: Inspired by One Family's Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp
By YAMASAKI, Katie
- ISBN
- 978-0-8234-2375-0
- Publisher
- Holiday House
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2013 | Preschool to Grade 4
Gr 1–3—Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Taro's father is taken away for questioning by the FBI, and Taro, his younger brother, and their mother are transported to an internment camp. Jimmy refuses to eat and becomes withdrawn and listless. Taro finds a way to slip outside the camp fences to obtain fresh fish to entice his brother to eat. While the story is moving, it is the acrylic illustrations that are exceptional. The style has a primitive quality, with expressive facial details and body positioning. Yamasaki combines representational and abstract elements in her images. Children ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2013
Rich, expressive acrylic paintings lend dreamlike imagery to a piece of historical fiction about an all-too-real time. It is 1941, and Taro and his younger brother, Jimmy, live in California with their Japanese-immigrant parents. They have a comfortable life together until the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent arrest of their father. Soon after, the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
