The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice
by Allen Say
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(1 ratings)160 pages2005Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine BooksISBN 9780618216130
About this book
A 14-year-old boy lives on his own in Tokyo and becomes apprenticed to a famous Japanese cartoonist.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books
- Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN
- 9780618216130
- Language
- en
About Allen Say
Allen Say (born James Allen Koichi Moriwaki Seii in 1937; surname written Seii (清井) in Japanese) is a Japanese-American writer and illustrator. He is best known for Grandfather's Journey, a children's picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again, which won the 1994 Caldecott Medal for illustration. This story is autobiographical and relates to Say's constant moving during his childhood. His work mainly focuses on Japanese and Japanese American characters and their stories, and several works have autobiographical elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Say
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