My Hiroshima (Viking Kestrel picture books) [Hardcover]

Junko Morimoto (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1990 | Age Level: 8 and up | Series: Viking Kestrel picture books

The artist tells her childhood memories of the bombing of Hiroshima, and the aftermath.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This beautifully modulated memoir about the destruction of Hiroshima in WW II was a PW Editors' Choice in 1990. Ages 3-8.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-6-- In forthright, unemotional words and affecting pictures, Morimoto, a high-school student when her city was destroyed by the first atomic bomb, relates her experience. The day of the bomb, the explosion, and the devastation it brought are rendered in artwork that moves from peaceful snapshots of daily life, to a small plane in a clear blue sky, through the explosion--an all-encompassing brown swirl in which Junko and her sister cling to one another--and climaxes with a mushroom cloud superimposed over almost surrealistic masses of writhing, pleading, and grasping hands. The horrors of the suffering and destruction are shown in strong shades of brown and black. People, neat and precise in prebomb pictures, are depicted in a more impressionistic style. A final photograph shows Morimoto as a grown woman returning to her school that is now clean white ground. Facts about Hiroshima are appended, as is a letter to parents and teachers detailing Morimoto's reasons for writing this book. This nonfiction title in picture-book format is a frank, powerful story in which both text and illustration work together without sentimentality or sensationalism to show the horror of war. --Louise L. Sherman, Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Viking Juvenile; 1 edition (August 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670831816
• ISBN-13: 978-0670831814
• Product Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 20 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #469,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars My Hiroshima, March 23, 2011

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This review is from: My Hiroshima (Viking Kestrel picture books) (Hardcover)

This is one of the most great books for children that shows the tragedy of U.S. Atomic bomb. The book shows its huminitarian effects on hundreds of thousands of Japanese. ...

It is great for children.