I'll have to pick this one up.

On another note, its probably already banned in floridah.

Without a doubt putting American citizens in concentration camps was the worst executive order ever.

This book is about the mistreatment of people who aren't/weren't white. It might give white people bad fee-fees!

I wonder if Florida has a mechanism in place yet for prebanning books before those sneaky librarians have a chance to spend money on them? If so, I think this will definitely go on the list.

I went to a private talk he gave several years ago, and came home with a comic-book format novel of his time in camps. I wonder what happened to the publishing of it?

This new book is a picture book adaptation for little kids. The graphic novel is for all ages.

I knew the cover was a little different. OK, now I understand what this new one is all about. Thanks for sharing.

A kid should be learning about math and spelling and science and literature and languages- NOT about life in a “camp”.

Boy, the old cliche about man’s inhumanity to man…

from school libraries the second it hits the shelves.

Really not much different than pre-Holocaust/WW2 Nazi camps...

Pure and simple racism...

It's true that the reasons our country decided to intern Japanese American weren't much different from the reasons the Germany started imprisoning political dissidents, intellectuals, and other "undesirables" in camps like Dachau. Both were wrong, and both involved serious human rights violations. From what I've read, there were some pretty major differences in the conditions people were subjected to in both cases, and the German prison camps were worse in many ways, but it's not wrong to say that the underlying principles were pretty similar.

This action by our government was a gross violation of human rights, and it would have been a gross violation of human rights even if the Japanese Americans had been housed in 5 star luxury hotels and served gourmet meals. Depriving people of their homes, possessions, jobs, businesses, and personal freedoms without any reason other than suspicion of what they "might" do, based on nothing more than racism, is an abomination, and this was unquestionably a dark chapter in our nation's history.

My wife is Japanese, and I've had long conversations with her relatives who were interned in a camp during the war. They have reunions every year, although there are not many of them left at this point.