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A whale falls in love with a military submarine, and dies courting her; a mother caught in a fire following a bombing gives all her body’s water to save her son, and her desiccated form turns into a kite; a wolf rescues a sick child abandoned by her parents, only to die himself at the hand of men. However, bunkers can also become real homes, a small Japanese girl and an American POW briefly understand each other and a miraculous tree feeds starving children… Akiyuki Nosaka remembers what it was like to be a child caught in war-torn Japan in 1945, and he retells his experiences in this collection of powerful and beautifully expressive stories for children.
| Subjects: | Akiyuki Nosaka Children and war Japan Juvenile fiction Translations into English World War II (1939-1945) |
| Notes: | Contents: The Whale That Fell in Love with a Submarine; The Parrot and the Boy; The Mother That Turned into a Kite; The Old She-Wolf and the Little Girl; The Red Dragonfly and the Cockroach; The Prisoner of War and the Little Girl; The Cake Tree in the Ruins; The Elephant and Its Keeper; A Soldier’s Family; My Home Bunker; A Balloon in August; The Soldier and the Horse |
| Description: | 112 p. ; ill. ; 14 x 19 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781782690986 |
| OCLC Number: | 908092088 |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Publisher: | Pushkin Children’s Books |
| Publication Place: | London |
| English Publication Date: | 2015 |
| Related: | Illustrated by Mika Private-Carlone |
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