Awards: August 2008 Archives

CCBC Choices

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Renee Ting
on August 15, 2008 11:47 AM | | Comments (0)
The Wakame Gatherers is honored to be chosen by the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as one of its 2008 Choices.

The 2008 edition of CCBC Choices features annotated entries for 279 books for children and young adults published in 2007 and recommended by the CCBC staff. CCBC Choices 2008 includes author/title and subject indexes and a commentary on the 2007 publishing year. (PDF of titles in CCBC Choices 2008).

Thanks, CCBC!
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"Holly Thompson’s The Wakame Gatherers is a marvel..."

-Allen Say

Holly Thompson has lived for many years in Kamakura, Japan, where she has often gathered wakame with her children and observed the harvesting of cultivated wakame. Raised in New England, she earned her M.A. in fiction writing from New York University and now teaches creative writing at Yokohama City University. She writes for both children and adults and is the Regional Advisor of the Tokyo chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Her novel Ash is also set in Japan.

Kazumi Wilds was born in Tokyo studied art at the Women’s College of Art in Tokyo and at the University of Minnesota. She has illustrated three other children’s books and teaches art when she is not painting. Kazumi now lives in the mountains of western Japan, near the Sea of Japan, with her children, dog, and cats. She remembers her many trips to Kamakura fondly.

Shen’s Books is a publisher of multicultural children’s literature that emphasizes cultural diversity and tolerance, with a focus on introducing children to the cultures of Asia.

Through books, we can share a world a stories, building greater understanding and tolerance within our increasingly diverse communities as well as throughout our continuously shrinking globe.