Home of the Brave

by Allen Say

Book Overview

In dreamlike sequences, a man symbolically confronts the trauma of his family's incarceration in the Japanese internment camps during World War II. This infamous event is made emotionally clear... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 061821223X
• ISBN13: 9780618212231
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.0" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

This Book Will Send Shivers Down Your Spine

Beautiful, poignant book. Even though it is a children's book, it is abstract, and perhaps hard for even some adults to understand. Despite the symbolic nature of most of the objects in the book, the message is clear, though blurry at the edges.

A haunting account of men, woman and children

A series of dream sequences imparts the trauma and experience of incarceration in an internment camp: an experience suffered by more than a hundred thousand Japanese Americans during World War II. Say creates a haunting account of men, woman and children who experienced the camps: kids with rudimentary reading skills will find this a thought-provoking introduction to the topic.