Sakura's cherry blossoms

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Title:

Sakura's cherry blossoms

Author:

Weston, Robert Paul, author.

Saburi, Misa, illustrator.

Summary:

"Sakura's dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees, under which she and her grandmother used to play and picnic. She wonders how she'll ever feel at home in this new place, with its unfamiliar language and landscape. One day, she meets her neighbor, a boy named Luke, and begins to feel a little more settled. When her grandmother becomes ill, though, her family takes a trip back to Japan. Sakura is sad when she returns to the States and once again reflects on all she misses. Luke does his best to cheer her up -- and tells her about a surprise he knows she'll love, but she'll have to wait till spring. In the meantime, Sakura and Luke's friendship blooms and finally, when spring comes, Luke takes her to see the cherry blossom trees flowering right there in her new neighborhood."-- Provided by publisher.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Genre:

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction.

Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction.

Homesickness -- Juvenile fiction.

Grandparent and child -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Japanese flowering cherry -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Saburi, Misa,

Publisher:

Tundra Books,

Publication Date:

2018

ISBN:

9781101918746

Publication Information:

Toronto : Tundra Books, [2018]

Call Number:

P WESTON

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Summary

Sakura's dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees they used to picnic under. One day, she meets her neighbour, a boy named Luke, and begins to feel a little more settled. When spring comes, Luke takes her to see the cherry blossom trees flowering right there in her new neighbourhood.

Author Notes

ROBERT PAUL WESTON was born in Dover, England, but did most of his growing up in the small town of Georgetown, Ontario. Since then, he's also spent time living in the US, Japan, Switzerland and the UK. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and has been nominated for the Journey Prize and the Fountain Award for Speculative Fiction. He has written several novels for young readers, including Zorgamazoo , Dust City and Blues for Zoey . Sakura's Cherry Blossoms is his first picture book. He currently lives in London, England.

MISA SABURI was born in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She makes illustrations using Photoshop, sometimes while watching soccer and silly Japanese TV shows. She illustrated the Cantata Learning Sing-Along Books series, as well as the upcoming picture book Snow White , an adaptation of the classic tale. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

"Seeing these blossoms in bloom/ is always finest with friends," Sakura's grandmother Obaachan tells her as they picnic underneath flowering cherry trees. Sakura loves her grandmother and misses her when her family moves from Japan to the United States. With lyrical prose-and sentences written, an afterword explains, in the Japanese poetic form of tanka-Weston (The Creature Department) chronicles the trials of adapting to another culture. Sakura gets used to new words ("They nipped and snapped on her tongue/ like the tang of pickled plums") and finds a friend her age named Luke. Then Obaachan falls ill, and Sakura must return to Japan to say goodbye. She mourns, but the following spring brings her a reminder of Obaachan in her new city. With their sturdy outlines, Saburi's images look like traditional woodblock prints; her sweet, doll-headed figures and toylike landscape help take the sting out of the story's sadder moments. Weston combines a look at Japanese customs, a meditation on loss, and observations on adjusting to a new country in this wistful, low-key tale. Ages 3-7. Author's agent: Jackie Kaiser, Westwood Creative Artists. Illustrator's agent: Kirsten Hall, Catbird Agency. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.