Crow Boy: 2 - Softcover

Yashima, Taro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0670050245 ISBN 13: 9780670050246

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile, 1969

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A shy Japanese boy, having difficulty adjusting to school, is misjudged by his classmates.

About this title

About the Author:

aro 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0670050245
• ISBN 13: 9780670050246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40