somewhere he was safe: Yoko’s father returned from a prison camp in Siberia six years later.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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In the aftermath of World War II, Yoko Kawashima met Donald Watkins while working at an American military base in Japan. They married and raised a family, living in different parts of the United States as Donald completed his military service.
SO FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE was heralded for presenting “a perspective of World War II rarely seen” by ALA Booklist in 1986, and its success helped open doors for other books about Asian experiences. This book is included in the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum and the author was named a “Literary Light for Children” by the Boston Public Library in 1998. Interest in Yoko’s story also led to the sequel, MY BROTHER, MY SISTER, AND I, which deals with the post-war years in Japan.
Yoko Kawashima Watkins received The Courage of Conscience Award from the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Other award recipients include Maya Angelou, Robert Coles, Rosa Parks, Cindy Sheehan, Benjamin Spock, Mother Teresa, and the Dalai Lama.
The author and her husband make their home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Her sister, Ko, lives nearby.
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CREDITS
Cover art © 1986 by Leo and Diane Dillon
Cover design by Ray Shappell
COPYRIGHT
SO FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE. Copyright © 1986 by Yoko Kawashima Watkins. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known orhereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Watkins, Yoko Kawashima.
So far from the bamboo grove / by Yoko Kawashima Watkins.
Summary: A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan at the end of World War II.
1. Watkins, Yoko Kawashima—Juvenile fiction. [1. Watkins, Yoko Kawashima—Fiction. 2. Korea—Fiction. 3. Japan—Fiction. 4. World War, 1939–1945—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W3235So 1994 [Fic]—dc20 93-11720 CIP AC
ISBN 978-0-688-13115-9
EPub Edition January 2014 ISBN 9780062347114
First Harper Trophy edition, 2008
13 LP/BR 30 29 28 27
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