Music for Alice

This chronicle describes the true travails of a Japanese-American woman who was uprooted by the US government during World War II. She and her husband opted to work as farm laborers rather than living in an internment camp. They struggled with land that refused at first to grow crops, but eventually owned America's largest gladiola bulb farm. Japanese-American author Allen Say's evocative watercolors trace the heroine's journey across the decades. One inspiring picture shows her standing in the midst of a vast vista of flowers on ground that had once looked like a moonscape. Say, who actually completed the paintings for his book prior to writing the story, also wrote and illustrated the 1994 Caldecott Medal winner, GRANDFATHER'S JOURNEY. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.