Sheila Hamanaka, Author Morrow Junior Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-17062-2
""Lyrical"" text and ""extraordinary, light-filled"" paintings celebrate the earth, children and the diversity of the world's ethnic heritages, said PW. Ages 4-up. (Sept.)
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Sheila Hamanaka, Author Scholastic $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-07060-4
``Impassioned'' prose and ``brilliantly executed'' paintings describe the experiences of Japanese immigrants in the first half of the century, with special emphasis on their incarceration during WWII; PW called this book ``significant... dramatic...
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Sheila Hamanaka, Author Clarion Books $21.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-395-72619-8
Dedicated to the memory of those who perished when atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki half a century ago, this poignant, hardhitting book collects the work of more than 60 noted writers and artists who, mostly through depictions of war,...
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Sheila Hamanaka, Author, Charles P. Macak, Author, Larry La Prise, Author Simon & Schuster $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-80519-6
Getting up close and personal with pictures of kids who put their right foot/ left arm/ right elbow in and shake it all about, Hamanaka (Peace Crane) puts her whole self into illustrating the classic party song. Taking the lyrics as her text, she...
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Sheila Hamanaka, Author, Sheila Hamanaka, Illustrator . HarperCollins $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-17852-9
Hamanaka (All the Colors of the Earth) is in high form with another stirring ode to the beauty of the richly multiethnic world we inhabit. In melodic verse, the girl with green eyes, light brown skin and long black hair pictured in the opening...
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Sheila Hamanaka, Author, Sheila Hamanaka, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-11131-1
With her lyrical text and splendid oil paintings, Hamanaka ( The Journey ; Screen of Frogs ) offers a hymn to children everywhere, who are ``all the colors of the earth and sky and sea.'' Extraordinary, light-filled paintings accompany the single...
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Sheila Hamanaka, Author, Sheila Hamanaka, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $16.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-531-05464-2
This multifaceted Japanese tale encompasses elements of ecology, industriousness and mystery. Koji, a wealthy boy, decides early on that a life of labor is not for him. As an equally slothful man, he whittles his fortune down to a house, a mountain...
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Sheila Hamanaka, Author, Sheila Hamanaka, Illustrator HarperCollins $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-13815-8
Dedicated to ""the children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to all the children everywhere who long for peace,"" this poem takes its inspiration from the true story of 12-year-old Sadako Sasaki, familiar to the many readers of Eleanor Coerr's novel...
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Sheila Hamanaka, Author, S. Hamanaka, Author Scholastic $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-05849-7
The Journey is based on Hamanaka's extraordinary 25-foot mural that depicts the experiences of Japanese Americans with emphasis upon the prejudice and injustice that culminated in their incarceration during World War II. Close-ups of the mural--along
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Sheila Hamanaka, Author, Ayano Ohmi, Author, Sheila Hamanaka, Illustrator HarperCollins $16 (48p) ISBN 978-0-688-14607-8
In the aftermath of WWII and the loss of many of its ancient monuments and works of art, Japan gave grants to the elders committed to the traditional arts to continue their crafts and to mentor others. Hamanaka and Ohmi offer a rare glimpse of these
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