Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII

Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII

Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII

Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII

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Overview

Author Marissa Moss and illustrator Yuko Shimizu’s Barbed Wire Baseball is a picture book about a true story set in a Japanese American internment camp in World War II.

A California Book Award Gold Medal Winner
California Reading Association’s Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Awards - HONOR
Notable Children’s Books from ALSC 2014

As a young boy, Kenichi Zenimura (Zeni) wanted to be a baseball player, even though everyone told him he was too small. He grew up to become a successful athlete, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family were sent to one of several internment camps established in the U.S. for people of Japanese ancestry. Zeni brought the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense of hope, and became known as the “Father of Japanese American Baseball.”

“Moss is a skilled author of historical narrative nonfiction for young readers; her tale is both well researched and well told. But it’s the visually stunning, sensitive illustrations by the hugely talented Shimizu that make the book a standout.” —New York Times Book Review

“Shimizu’s Japanese brush and ink illustrations, digitally layered with dusty colors suggestive of the arid relocation camp, are a visual feast, from the patterned swirls of battleship steam and desert dust, to the series of depictions of Zenimura in motion, to the rhythmic composition of the female detainees stitching the potato-sack uniforms.” —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781419705212
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Publication date: 04/09/2013
Pages: 48
Product dimensions: 9.20(w) x 11.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile: 800L (what's this?)
Age Range: 6 - 10 Years

About the Author

Marissa Moss has written more than 70 children’s books. She is the bestselling author/illustrator of the Amelia’s Notebook series and illustrator of The Eye That Never Sleeps, America’s Tea Parties, Barbed Wire Baseball, and Nurse, Soldier, Spy. Her awards include two California Book Awards, a Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Award Honor, an NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, an ALA Notable, and the Cowan Writers’ Prize. She lives in Berkeley, California.


Yuko Shimizu is an illustrator and comics artist best known for the cover of the graphic-novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman: The Dream Hunters. She lives in New York City.
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