Illustration by: Allen Say
Genre: Children's picture book
Subgenre: Nonfiction book
Theme: Home
Primary characters: Man from Japan
Awards: Caldecott Medal
Date of Publication: 1993
Publishing Company: Houghton Mifflin
Summary: There is a man from Japan who moves to California. He loves the Sierra mountains. Later he realizes that he misses home so he moves back to Japan and marries his high school sweet heart. He moves back to California to raise their daughter. The man remembers his childhood in Japan and wishes to take his family back to Japan. He is happy to see old friends and moves to a city nearby for his daughter. She marries and has a son.The son is the narrator of the story. The man wishes he could go back to California one more time. He longs to see the Sierra Mountains one more time. But he never gets the chance due to World War II. So the grandson, the narrator, travels like his grandfather and learns the love his grandfather had for both homes. This is a great story about the importance of a home. But this story allows you to see that you can have more than one home, which many children do these days. This would be great for the library in a classroom.
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