Barbed Wire Baseball
How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII
Published on 8. March 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
48 pages
978-1-4197-2058-1 (ISBN)
Description
A tale based on the early life of Japanese-American baseball pioneer Kenichi Zenimura traces his childhood dream of playing professionally and his family's struggles in a World War II internment camp where he introduces baseball to raise hope, in a story complemented by archival photographs. Reprint.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Abrams
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 6 to 9 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Picture book
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Full-color illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 274 mm
Width: 224 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4197-2058-1 (9781419720581)
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E-Book
05/2023
Amulet Books
€10.69
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Persons
Marissa Moss has written and illustrated many books for children, including the popular Amelia's Notebook series, as well as Nurse, Soldier, Spy and A Soldier's Secret. She lives in Berkeley, California. marissamoss.com.
Yuko Shimizu is an illustrator and comics artist best known for the cover of the graphic-novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: The Dream Hunters. She lives in New York City. yukoart.com.
Yuko Shimizu is an illustrator and comics artist best known for the cover of the graphic-novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: The Dream Hunters. She lives in New York City. yukoart.com.