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Holly Thomson Interview at Here and There Japan

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Renee Ting
on September 29, 2008 3:00 PM | | Comments (0)
There is a very sweet interview with Holly Thompson on Annie Donwerth Chikamatsu's blog, Here and There Japan. In it, Holly talks mostly about life in Japan rather than writing, and I love learning about all of life's little details that we here in the U.S. would never expect. For example, Holly says that she has trouble finding shoes big enough for her in Japan, so she always buys shoes when she's back in the U.S.!
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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.

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