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CCBC Review:

“If you are a boy named Isamu … you find a secret place so you can look at the ocean and see the shapes of things.” A spare, eloquent second-person picture-book narrative imagines a day in the life of the Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi when he was a child. Leaving the crowded market, Isamu wanders, and wonders. He asks questions about the nature of things (“How does fruit get its color?”) and notices—the fan blades of grass tossed in the air, the texture of stones, and shapes, especially shapes. As an adult, Noguchi was known for his sculptures of wood, paper, and stone, as well as landscape design. His observant way of being in the world and interacting with nature as imagined here is perfectly paired with understated illustrations. ©2022 Cooperative Children’s Book Center

 

Illustrated by James Yang

CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 5-8
Age Range: PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7) Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-10)
Formats: Biography, Autobiography and Memoir Picture book
Subjects: Art and Artists Asian Americans Japanese and Japanese Americans Multiracial Characters/Families Nature/Environment Observation
Diversity subject: Asian
On CCBC Booklist: Asian in America: Selected Books for PreK-Grade 12 to Support Hmong and Asian American Studies in Wisconsin 

Publishers: Penguin Random House, Viking
Publish Year: 2021
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9780893203446
CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 920 Noguchi

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