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Drawing from memory

2011

Graphic Novel

"Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinp...

Drawing from memory

2011

Restricted EAudiobook (NNELS)

Part memoir, part graphic novel, part narrative history, Caldecott Medalist Allen Say chronicles his journey as an artist during WWII when he apprenti...

Kozo the sparrow

—Say, Allen, author, illustrator.

2023

Book

A young boy sees a baby bird quivering in the hands of a neighborhood bully. Suddenly, he wants the orphan sparrow more than anything. He trades all h...

—Say, Allen, author, illustrator.

2024

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"When an old man takes a morning walk, he is startled by a paper airplane overhead. As he follows it through strangely familiar places, he glimpses hi...

—Say, Allen, author, illustrator.

2023

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A young boy, aware of his grandmother's forgetfulness, helps her recall a time when she was a kindergarten teacher teaching her students about humming...

—Say, Allen, author.

1991

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A Japanese boy learns of Christmas when his mother decorates a pine tree with paper cranes....

—Say, Allen, author, illustrator.

2020

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The New Girl at school plays the violin so beautifully that Almond gets lost in the music, but she also feels sad because she does not know if she her...

Grandfather's journey

—Say, Allen, author.

2013

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Silent days, silent dreams

—Say, Allen, author, illustrator.

2017

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A fictional biography of James Castle, a deaf, autistic artist whose drawings hang in major museums throughout the world....

The boy in the garden

2010

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After Jiro encounters a life-like garden statue of a tall bird, he falls asleep and dreams of the story his mother once told him about a grateful cran...

The favorite daughter

2013

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Yuriko, teased at school for her unusual name and Japanese ancestry, yearns to be more ordinary until her father reminds her of how special she is....

Under the cherry blossom tree : an old Japanese tale

1997

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A cherry tree growing from the top of the wicked landlord's head is the beginning of his misfortunes and a better life for the poor villagers....

Stranger in the mirror

—Say, Allen, author.

1995

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When a young Asian-American boy wakes up one morning with the face of an old man, he has trouble convincing people that he is still himself....

—Say, Allen, author

1996

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A young artist finds that her creativity comes from within when the rug that she had always relied upon for inspiration is destroyed....

Once under the cherry blossom tree : an old Japanese tale

1974

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A cherry tree growing from the top of the wicked landlord's head is the beginning of his misfortunes and a better life for the poor villagers....

The bicycle man

1982

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The amazing tricks two American soldiers do on a borrowed bicycle are a fitting finale for the school sports day festivities in a small village in occ...

1988

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Beautiful water colors lend tranquillity to this fantasy of a young boy's fly-fishing trip. When Mark hooks a beautiful fish, he realizes he must kill...

1989

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A young boy and his father become closer friends during a camping trip in the mountains....

—Say, Allen, author.

1990

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A biography of Bill Wong, a Chinese American who became a famous bullfighter in Spain....

—Say, Allen, author.

1997

Book

When Allison realizes that she looks more like her favorite doll than like her parents, she comes to terms with this unwelcomed discovery through the...

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