The Lost lake, written and illustrated by Allen SayĮarly one summer morning, a father wakes up the his son to take him on a camping trip to the lost lake, just has his own father had when he was a boy. Kamishibai means “Paper Theater,” a form of street performance disappeared in Japan, until an old man returns to the city to be a kamishibai man one more time to share his stories and candies with his audience. Kamishibai man, written and illustrated by Allen Say

Now, after graduating from college, Erika starts her journey to look for the old Japan and the serene scene she has imagined all these years. Tree of cranes, written and illustrated by Allen SayĪfter a Japanese boy catches a cold from playing at his neighbor’s pond on a chilly winter day, he fears his mother will be upset, but all her seemingly odd actions turn out to be a big surprise!Įrika-san, written and illustrated by Allen SayĪs a young girl, Erika was enthralled by a picture she saw in her grandmother’s house: a quiet and plain Japanese cottage with lighted windows.

She finds a job at a department store, and eventually finds a husband who, much to her amusement, also drinks tea with milk and sugar. May comes to Japan and is excited about Osaka’s vastness and the noises that made her think of her home in California. Tea with milk, written and illustrated by Allen Say Time went by, and by the time his daughter had grown up, grandfather could no longer wait to return to Japan, for he had been missing his home country for years, and yet after his family moved back to Japan, grandfather grew to miss California: “the moment I am in one country, I am homesick for the other.” When grandfather was a young man, he came to America from Japan to see the world, and later settled down in California, the place he loved best. Grandfather’s journey, written and illustrated by Allen Say His glowing and exquisite paintings often explain his simple and well written stories extremely well and bring endless imaginations to his readers- children and adults alike. Since then he embarked on a career creating children’s picture books.Īllen Say has frequently examined the immigrant experience in the United States. In 1989, he earned his fist Caldecott honor award for his illustrations for The Boy of Three-Year Nap written by Dianne Snyder. He first went to a military high school, and then to different colleges to study art. Allen Say was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1937.

Tea with milk by allen say