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A River Dream by Allen Say
$9.99 AUD
Category: Japan
While sick in bed, a young boy opens a box from his uncle and embarks on a fantastical fishing trip
Allison by Allen Say
$9.99 AUD
Category: Japan
When Allison tries on the red kimono her grandmother has sent her, she is suddenly aware that she resembles her favorite doll more than she does her mother and father. When her parents explain that she is adopted, Allison's doll becomes her only solace--until she finds a stray cat in the garden and lear ...Show more
El Chino by Allen Say
$9.99 AUD
Category: Japan | Reading Level: 7-13
The true story of a Chinese boy who, on the advice of his father--"In America, you can be anything you want to be"--grows up to become a bullfighter. "Say fashions a first-person narrative into a resonant biography of an intriguing anomaly. . . .
Emma's Rug by Allen Say
$10.95 AUD
Category: Japan | Reading Level: 5-9
In a story of warmth and surprise, the Caldecott Medalist explores the origins of artistic inspiration with this portrayal of a child who discovers that creativity ultimately comes from within.
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
$12.99 AUD
Category: Japan
Through compelling reminiscences of his grandfather's life in America and Japan, Allen Say gives us a poignant acount of a family's unique cross-cultural experience. He warmly conveys his own love for his two countries, and the strong and constant desire to be in both places at once. "The immigrant expe ...Show more
Kozo the Sparrow by Allen Say (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Caldecott Medalist Allen Say's tale of a young boy who saves a baby bird from the local bullies is filled with compassion and empathy. Based on a true story and gorgeously illustrated, this story from an iconic picture book creator is not to be missed.A young boy sees a baby bird quivering in the hands ...Show more
The Bicycle Man by Allen Say
$9.99 AUD
Category: Japan | Series: Sandpiper S.
"In this simple, engaging remembrance, Say tells how two American soldiers come upon his country school's athletic festival and put on a show of trick bicycle riding that leaves the audience cheering".--Booklist.
The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice by Allen Say
$9.95 AUD
Category: Japan
Thirteen-year-old Kiyoi, an apprentice to the famous cartoonist, Noro Shinpei, tries to develop his talent and become self-reliant, in this novel based upon the author's own boyhood in Japan. "A warm, sensitive portrait of growing up in post-war Japan." -- Booklist, starred review
The Lost Lake by Allen Say
$10.95 AUD
Category: Japan | Series: Sandpiper books
Luke and his father, who is disgusted by the tourists surrounding the once secluded lake of his childhood, hike deeper into the wilderness to find a "lost lake" of their own. "Say's watercolor paintings, embracing the many moods of the natural world, . . . really command attention. Readers will feel tha ...Show more
The Sign Painter by Allen Say
$9.99 AUD
Category: Japan
Early one morning a boy comes into town looking for work. He meets a sign painter who takes him on as a helper, and they are commissioned to paint a series of billboards in the desert. Each billboard has only one word, Arrowstar. They do not know its meaning. As they are about to paint the last sign, th ...Show more
Tree of Cranes by Allen Say
$10.99 AUD
Category: Japan
As a young Japanese boy recovers from a bad chill, his mother busily folds origami paper into delicate silver cranes in preparation for the boy's very first Christmas.
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