Yukie's Island: My Family's World War II Story (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250206503)

A moving picture book autobiography about a family's resilience and path to healing after the devastation of war.

It's 1945, the final year of World War II. Yukie Kimura is eight years old. She lives on a tiny island with a lighthouse in the north of Japan with her family, and she knows that the fighting that once felt so far away is getting closer.

Mornings spent helping her father tend to the lighthouse and adventuring with her brother are replaced by weeks spent inside, waiting. At some point, Yukie knows, they may be bombed.

Then, it happens. One Sunday, bombs are dropped. The war ends soon after that. Everyone tells Yukie there's nothing to be scared of anymore, but she's not so sure. So she watches and she waits--until a miraculous sight finally allows her to be a kid again.

This is the true story of Yukie Kimura told in her own words, co-created with her son, illustrator Kodo Kimura, and co-written with bestselling Newbery Honor author Steve Sheinkin. Yukie's Island is an honest, thoughtful, and stirring picture book about being a child living through wartime.

Author: Yukie Kimura, Kōdo Kimura, Steve Sheinkin
ISBN-10: 1250206502
ISBN-13: 9781250206503
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2023
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 11.22h x 8.93w x 0.36d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2023
School Library Journal 05/01/2023 pg. 98
Booklist 06/01/2023 pg. 72
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 07/24/2023