pickBiography - Published in 2019. Ruth Asawa was an award-winning Japanese American sculptor and activist who advocated tirelessly for arts education. This book tells the story of this pioneering artist whose work is collected in major museums around the world.
Inspired by the world around her, Asawa saw beauty in the ordinary: the webs of spiders, wings of insects, and drops of water found in the garden on the farm where she spent her childhood.
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From facinghistory.org: FAREWELL TO MANZANAR is the true story of Jeanne Wakatsuki's family‘s attempt to survive the indignities caused by forced detention, and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States during WW2.
pickA based-on-true-events picture book about the author's grandparents meeting at an interment camp. A sweet story set in an awful location, the author focuses on hope, language, and love, leaving the horrors as vague concepts.
Went to Powell to exchange some books and the kids exchange desk is only open from Friday to Sunday 🤦🏼♀️ so of course I had to get two books …
