Comments on: Local author writes children’s book on Japanese-American internment camps http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2006/08/18/sunflowers/ Lectures, radio shows and more available on-demand Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:35:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Books at Bedtime: Sunflowers http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2006/08/18/sunflowers/comment-page-1/#comment-180854 Books at Bedtime: Sunflowers Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:04:29 +0000 http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2006/08/18/sunflowers/#comment-180854 [...] Keeping watch over every millimetre of growth has been a good time to read A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, this year’s winner of the Jane Addams Book Award for Best Picture Book. It is a beautiful and poignant story about one little American girl’s experience of adjusting to being interned during the Second World War because of her Japanese heritage; the character, Mari, is based on author Amy Lee-Tai’s own mother. You can hear Amy reading extracts from the book and talking about it here. [...] [...] Keeping watch over every millimetre of growth has been a good time to read A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, this year’s winner of the Jane Addams Book Award for Best Picture Book. It is a beautiful and poignant story about one little American girl’s experience of adjusting to being interned during the Second World War because of her Japanese heritage; the character, Mari, is based on author Amy Lee-Tai’s own mother. You can hear Amy reading extracts from the book and talking about it here. [...]

]]> By: » Blog Archive » Books at Bedtime: Peace http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2006/08/18/sunflowers/comment-page-1/#comment-92426 » Blog Archive » Books at Bedtime: Peace Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:15:33 +0000 http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2006/08/18/sunflowers/#comment-92426 [...] younger children, such books as A Place Where Sunflowers Grow by Amy Lee-Tai and illustrated by Felicia Hoshino; Peacebound Trains by Haemi Balgassi; and The Orphans of Normandy [...] [...] younger children, such books as A Place Where Sunflowers Grow by Amy Lee-Tai and illustrated by Felicia Hoshino; Peacebound Trains by Haemi Balgassi; and The Orphans of Normandy [...]

]]> By: » Blog Archive » Books at Bedtime: Sunflowers http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2006/08/18/sunflowers/comment-page-1/#comment-74652 » Blog Archive » Books at Bedtime: Sunflowers Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:54:27 +0000 http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2006/08/18/sunflowers/#comment-74652 [...] Keeping watch over every millimetre of growth has been a good time to read A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, this year’s winner of the Jane Addam’s Book Award for Best Picture Book. It is a beautiful and poignant story about one little American girl’s experience of adjusting to being interned during the Second World War because of her Japanese heritage; the character, Mari, is based on author Amy Lee-Tai’s own mother. You can hear Amy reading extracts from the book and talking about it here. [...] [...] Keeping watch over every millimetre of growth has been a good time to read A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, this year’s winner of the Jane Addam’s Book Award for Best Picture Book. It is a beautiful and poignant story about one little American girl’s experience of adjusting to being interned during the Second World War because of her Japanese heritage; the character, Mari, is based on author Amy Lee-Tai’s own mother. You can hear Amy reading extracts from the book and talking about it here. [...]

]]> By: Chris Uttenweiler http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2006/08/18/sunflowers/comment-page-1/#comment-16689 Chris Uttenweiler Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:52:10 +0000 http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2006/08/18/sunflowers/#comment-16689 Very good peice on a very bold subject. "I think that children need to be exposed to some of the darker parts of American history" Very true words. The sugar coating of our actions hides their effects. This is also a timely subject, with the questioning of the no-warrent wire taps - which is luckly not as gross of a violation of citizens rights as the internment camps were. Sometimes well meaning people make grave errors - we should learn from those mistakes, not hide them. Very good peice on a very bold subject.

“I think that children need to be exposed to some of the darker parts of American history”

Very true words. The sugar coating of our actions hides their effects. This is also a timely subject, with the questioning of the no-warrent wire taps – which is luckly not as gross of a violation of citizens rights as the internment camps were.

Sometimes well meaning people make grave errors – we should learn from those mistakes, not hide them.

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