Winner of the 2017 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award **
Winner of the 2015 Gelett Burgess Award for Best Intercultural Book**
Winner of the 2015 Silver Evergreen Medal for World Peace
This true children’s story is told by a little bonsai tree, called Miyajima, that lived with the same family in the Japanese city of Hiroshima for more than 300 years before being donated to the National Arboretum in Washington DC in 1976 as a gesture of friendship between America and Japan to celebrate the American Bicentennial.
From the Book:
“In 1625, when Japan was a land of samurai and castles, I was a tiny pine seedling. A man called Itaro Yamaki picked me from the forest where I grew and took me home with him. For more than three hundred years, generations of the Yamaki family trimmed and pruned me into a beautiful bonsai tree. In 1945, our household survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In 1976, I was donated to the National Arboretum in Washington D.C., where I still live today—the oldest and perhaps the wisest tree in the bonsai museum.”
Product Features
- Tuttle Publishing
Wonderful historical picture book told from the point of view … Wonderful historical picture book told from the point of view of the tree. My daughter is 4 years old and asked repeatedly throughout the book “did that really happen”. She is kind of a sensitive kid so I was not sure how the war part would go over with her. She was fine with it. I think it is a good book that offers discussion for now and when she gets older. The illustrations are lovely. My favorite is the two page spread with the cosmos flowers. I love the wonderful writing…