• Book Review

    Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and illustrated by Yas Imamura

    Tweet I spotted this book at my local library and was intrigued. What does love have to do with the library? Love in the Library written by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, illustrated by Yas Imamura and published by Candlewick Press is a picture book based on a true story about the author’s grandparents. It is a love story within a greater context of the Japanese incarceration camps after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. This hits home for me as a fifth generation Japanese American born and raised in Hawaii. My grandmother lived through gas mask drills and my Kauai grandparents wedding anniversary was…