{"product_id":"crow-boy-isbn-9780140501728","title":"Crow Boy","description":"Winner of a Caldecott Honor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA shy Japanese boy having difficulty adjusting to school is misjudged by his classmates. Chibi has been an outcast since that frightening first day of school  when he hid under the schoolhouse. Afraid of the teacher and unable to  make any friends, Chibi passes his free time alone — alone at study  time, alone at playtime, always a \"forlorn little tag-along.\" But when  Mr. Isobe arrives, the teacher sees things in Chibi that no one else has  ever noticed...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A shy mountain boy in Japan leaves his home at dawn and returns at  sunset to go to the village school. Pictures and text of moving and  harmonious simplicity.\" —\u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003eTaro Yashima was the pseudonym of  Atsushi Iwamatsu, a Japanese artist who lived in the USA during World  War II. Iwamatsu was born September 21, 1908, in Nejima, Kimotsuki  District, Kagoshima, and raised there on the southern coast of Kyushu.  His father was a country doctor who collected oriental art and  encouraged art in his son. After studying for three years at the  Imperial Art Academy in Tokyo, Iwamatsu became a successful illustrator  and cartoonist. At one point both he and his wife Tomoe went to jail for  his opposition to the militaristic government. In 1939, they went to  the United States to study art, leaving behind their son Mako. After  Pearl Harbor, Iwamatsu joined the U.S. Army and went to work as an  artist for the Office of Strategic Services. It was then that he first  used the pseudonym Taro Yashima, out of fear there would be  repercussions for Mako and other family members if the Japanese  government knew of his employment. He died in 1994.","brand":"Puffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305362182373,"sku":"NP9780140501728","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140501728.jpg?v=1767724296","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/crow-boy-isbn-9780140501728","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}