BookDragon Tokyo Digs a Garden Tag

05 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction

One of my favorite new artists – Japanese Canadian Kellen Hatanaka – debuts his first bookish collaboration with first-time author Jon-Erik Lappano and, together, the talented duo plant some mighty magical seeds. Surrounded (choked?) by the crowded urban sprawl of an overgrown city, Tokyo and his family – including his clever and...