George Takei has a book! And it's his birthday!
Crown Books for Young Readers via NPR
Speaking on Weekend Edition Saturday's broadcast this morning, Takei and illustrator Michelle Lee discuss what it was like to be forced into a camp at age 4, and the details looked for to properly show life behind the wire.
"'The horse stalls were pungent,' Takei remembers, 'overwhelming with the stench of horse manure. The air was full of flies, buzzing. My mother, I remember, kept mumbling "So humiliating. So humiliating."'
He says, 'Michelle's drawing really captured the degradation our family was reduced to.'"
"You drew the home that my mother made out of that raw space, Takei tells Lee. "That was wonderful."
"'These themes of displacement and uprooting of communities from one place to another — these are things that are constantly happening,' says Lee. 'Because of war and because of political decisions ... those themes aren't uncommon. They're universal.'"
Full story with audio button (so you can listen to Takei and Lee talk about the project!) produced by Samantha Balaban. Includes link to order the book.
Happy birthday Mr. Takei.
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