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Noguchi, Rick , Jenks, Deneen

Flowers from Mariko

32 pp. | Lee | October, 2001 | Trade ISBN 1-58430-032-9 $$16.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Michelle Reiko Kumata. When Mariko's family is released from the Japanese internment camps, her father has no truck or gardening tools anymore. Nevertheless, Mariko plants flowers, that universal symbol of new life, and her dad finally gets a gardening job. The story is simple and unpretentious, and the period fabric designs used in the art evoke the wartime era. An authors' note provides historical background.
Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

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