{"id":777,"date":"2009-01-26T14:23:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T18:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=777"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:00:14","slug":"erika-san-by-allen-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/erika-san-by-allen-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika-san by Allen Say [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/01\/Erika-san.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29847\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/01\/Erika-san-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"Erika-san\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>The prolific, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/bookmedia\/caldecottmedal\/caldecotthonors\/1994caldecott.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Caldecott Medal<\/a>-winning Allen Say debuts his latest picture book, as gorgeous as all the others. As a child, Erika falls in love with Japan through a framed picture her grandfather bought as a young man. &#8220;I want to go there when I grow up,&#8221; she announces to her grandmother of the small cottage in the picture. She never forgets her promise to herself. She studies Japanese all the way through college, gets herself a teaching job in Japan, and lands eventually on a small remote island. She meets and befriends a fellow teacher, relishes her new life, and comes to realize that she is &#8220;home at last.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/tbr-2009-05-06-apa-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prolific, Caldecott Medal-winning Allen Say debuts his latest picture book, as gorgeous as all the others. 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