Welcome to Litsy!

Three books I‘ve loved with #Berries in the title 🫐🍓

#HumbleHarvest

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Challenged in 2006 for using a derogatory word to describe the young Japanese American MC, this book touches on the Japanese Interment camps in the US during WWII and how baseball helped the MC cope and excel. This #PictureBook is probably better suited for an older child, and one that especially likes baseball. The illustrations add to the dusty, hot atmosphere of the camp setting. #BBRC #LetterC

It's 1942: Tomi Itano, 12, is a second-generation Japanese American who lives in California with her family on their strawberry farm. But everything changes after the attack on Pearl Harbor…

#anyfruitintitle #bigjunereadathon @Clwojick

🎧 A well told story of a Colorado community and a nearby internment camp during WWII.

An American story. A story of Americans. Frankly I think this should be in every middle grade class in America. I cannot recall learning about WWII Japanese relocation camps until I was out of school. If we did it was so glossed over I didn‘t recall it. So important to tell the story of all Americans. Reading this makes me want to read Dallas‘s adult novel on the subject, Tallgrass.

I feel like I‘ve been MIA for a few weeks, going from posting three or four times a day to once or twice a week. I think some things just got to me more than I realised. Anyway, I‘ve finally had some time off work, I‘m feeling a little refreshed, and it seems I‘m ready to bore you all again. Sorry 😂 Does a picture of my cat with her tongue out soften the blow? 😁

A friendship that endured through separation by internment in WW2 🥰
#foreverfriends
#flyhighjuly

#JamminJune @Eggs
#Red, White and Blue

Good World War II historical fiction about the Dutch population in Java and a family‘s internment in a Japanese prison camp...I can‘t remember reading a novel set in this world of WWII history before.

#UCFLAE3414F19

(Author: Ken Mochizuki; Illustrator: Dom Lee)

This HF is about a Japanese-American boy who, together with the others in his internment camp, decided to build a baseball diamond and form a league in an attempt to gain dignity and self-respect. This would be great for a PR, especially between pairs of students taking turns to read paragraphs and discuss the text to ensure understanding.