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Allen Say

Author

Allen Say

1937

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

Bibliography

Books

30 books

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Imagine

1996

J. David Cooper, Lensey Namioka, Kathryn H. Au, Margarita Calderón, Jacqueline C. Comas, Marjorie Y. Lipson, J Sabrina Mims, Susan E. Page, Sheila W. Valencia, MaryEllen Vogt, Johanna Hurwitz, Judy Blume, Kalli Dakos, David L. Harrison, Charles M. Schulz, Bud Howlett, Eloise Greenfield, Anthony Yengo, Deborah H. Sussman, Carole G. Vogel, Kathryn Allen Goldner, Janice Koch, Jack Prelutsky, Lynne Cherry, Megan Hunter, Chris Van Allsburg, Lucinda Landon, John Shabe, Ann Cameron, Bridget Hudson, Anne Civardi, Colin King, Donald J. Sobol, Allen Say, Nicholasa Mohr, Patricia MacLachlan, Walter Dean Myers, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Briana Taylor, George Littlechild, Gary Soto, Nathan A Cox, Donna Tocci, Seamus Cavan, Shel Silverstein, Myra Cohn Livingston, Langston Hughes, Eleanor Coerr, Mavis Jukes, Sofia Vilella, Lois Lowry, David Wiesner, Anne Newgarden, Mary Pope Osborne, E. B. White, Cooper & Pikulski, John J. Pikulski, Jphn J Pikulski, David J. Cooper

Bathtub Voyages cover

Bathtub Voyages

1993

Ezra Jack Keats, Pat Cherr, Allen Say, Laurie Krasny Brown, Marc Brown, Gail Gibbons, Gus Gedatus, Pam Conrad