Book Description
for My Hiroshima by Junko Morimoto
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Based on childhood memories, the Japanese artist recalls her life in Hiroshima before and after the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. A spare text combined with detailed pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations contrasts the daily life routines before the bomb with the devastation afterwards. (Ages 9-12)
CCBC Choices 1990 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1990. Used with permission.