Rick 野口 Noguchi & Deneen 野口 Jenks-Noguchi, “Flowers from Mariko”, 2001 was a children’s book of World War II Japanese-American internment’s. The Noguchi’s are a husband & wife writing team of Rick and Deneen.
“Mariko” is the protagonist Japanese-American girl who insists: “just because I look like the enemy doesn’t mean I am”. Mariko is forced to live in the internment camp, after the December 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. Three years later, she watches her gardener-father tend his tiny flower garden in the camp. The time comes to relocate, leaving the internment camp. Free to go at last, Mariko’s father travels to their home to get his truck: however, the landlord sold the truck and moved away.
Rick 野口 Noguchi & Deneen 野口 Jenks-Noguchi, “Flowers from Mariko”, 2001 was a children’s book of World War II Japanese-American internment’s. Rick Noguchi, “Flowers from Mariko”, was on the 18th May 2002 the “annual author recognition” award recipient-book. I saw the Rick & Deneen 野口 Noguchi at the Little Tokyo Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library award luncheon. “Flowers from Mariko”, 2001 is a book that I recommend.
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