PICTURE BOOKS
Say, Allen

Home of the Brave

(4) K-3 Beyond the fact of its setting in an internment camp for Japanese Americans, little about this ponderous picture book fable is clear. A kayaking man finds two children wearing ID tags, but the internment camp they've come from appears abandoned. Perhaps all three are figures in a ghostly shifting of time, memory, and conscience. If the pictures fail to shed life on the story, they are often in themselves sparely poignant scenes of lost children.

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