A Line Can Go Anywhere is a picture book about American artist Ruth Asawa who is best known for her enchanting sculptures. Ruth Asawa used curved lines to craft unique art pieces inspired by natural elements, like bean stalks, tumbleweeds, and the outline of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountain range. Ruth Asawa also incorporated man-made shapes in her pieces, patterning curved lines to resemble wire egg baskets she noticed in Mexico and the barbed wire fencing that was used around the Japanese relocation center where her family and other immigrants were detained during World War II.
Today, Ruth Asawa's work can be viewed in museums around the world and in public art scupltures and fountains in New York and San Francisco. One of her first pieces, a fountain in San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, is now an important California landmark
A young woman working in a small library in the Minidoka Japanese incarceration camp in Idaho finds comfort in books and befriends a young man who visits daily to check out a stack of books.
Love in the Library is an honest look at American history based on on author Maggie Tokuda-Hall's grandparents, Tama and George Tokuda, who met, married, and had their first child while detained in the Minidoka internment camp. This picture book for juvenile readers is thoughtfully illustrated by Yas Imamura in soft colors that resemble yellowed photographs.
Alicia Cavitt
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