Obaasan's BootsObaasan's Boots
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eBook, 2023
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Current format, eBook, 2023, , Available. Offered in 0 more formats"They had everything taken from them because they were Japanese." Lou and Charlotte don't know much about their grandmother's life. Their Obaasan invites them to spend time with her, sharing her experience as a Japanese Canadian during WWII and a painful story of their family's internment. The girls begin to understand how their identities have been shaped by racism, and that history is not only about the past. Cousins Lou and Charlotte don't know a lot about their grandmother's life. When their Obaasan invites them to spend the day in her garden, she also invites them into their family's secrets. Grandma shares her experience as a Japanese Canadian during WWII, revealing the painful story of Japanese internment. Her family was forced apart. Whole communities were uprooted, moved into camps, their belongings stolen. Lou and Charlotte struggle with the injustice, even as they marvel at their grandmother's strength. They begin to understand how their identities have been shaped by racism, and that history is not only about the past. Key Selling Points: - Written by cousins Janis Bridger and Lara Jean Okihiro, Obaasan's Boots is based on the true story of their Japanese Canadian grandparents who were forcibly moved in 1942 and sent to an internment camp. This is explained in an authors' note. - Contains a historical timeline of WWII and the internment of those with Japanese heritage in North America, and historical photos. - There are few books for younger children on the topic of the Nikkei internment. Obaasan's Boots provides details of the Japanese Canadian internment, and the racism that existed before and beyond the event. - The story explores the impact the Japanese Canadian internment has had on later generations. - The book is full of Social Emotional Learning, as the children have to deal with the mysterious silences that surround their family's past, the strong disagreements between family members, family separation, lost language, and the trauma they've inherited.
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- [United States] : Second Story Press, 2023., Made available through hoopla
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