Minoru Tonai, Jolene Gutiérrez, and Chris Sasaki – Cannonball Read 18

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Unbreakable: A Japanese American Family in an American Incarceration Camp (A Picture Book) by Minoru Tonai, Jolene Gutiérrez, and Chris Sasaki

October 29, 2025 by BlackRaven 1 Comment

When you read as many picture books as I do, once in a while one of two things (or both) can happen. The first is you think you’ve read it before (or at least a sample) or things start to feel similar due to similar subjects. A subject I am interested in are the Japanese-American internment camps from World War II. This is partly because I have family who is Japanese-American and when I realized this could be them it made it personal (I know […]

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