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A shy mountain boy in Japan is ridiculed by his schoolmates, but they stop when they understand why he is "different."

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Yashima, Tarō, 1908-1994
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Pine Plains, N.Y. : Live Oak Media, p1975, c1955.
Subjects:	Fairy tales > Japan. Caldecott honor book.
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Summary:	A shy mountain boy in Japan is ridiculed by his schoolmates, but they stop when they understand why he is "different."
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations.
ISBN:	014050172X 9780140501728
Author Notes:	Taro Yashima was the pseudonym of Atsushi Iwamatsu, a Japanese artist who lived in the USA during World War II. Iwamatsu was born September 21, 1908, in Nejima, Kimotsuki District, Kagoshima, and raised there on the southern coast of Kyushu. His father was a country doctor who collected oriental art and encouraged art in his son. After studying for three years at the Imperial Art Academy in Tokyo, Iwamatsu became a successful illustrator and cartoonist. At one point both he and his wife Tomoe went to jail for his opposition to the militaristic government. In 1939, they went to the United States to study art, leaving behind their son Mako. After Pearl Harbor, Iwamatsu joined the U.S. Army and went to work as an artist for the Office of Strategic Services. It was then that he first used the pseudonym Taro Yashima, out of fear there would be repercussions for Mako and other family members if the Japanese government knew of his employment. He died in 1994.