**Winner of the 2015 Gelett Burgess Award for Best Intercultural Book**
**Winner of the 2015 Silver Evergreen Medal for World Peace**

This true children's story is told by a little bonsai tree, called Miyajima, that lived with the same family in the Japanese city of Hiroshima for more than 300 years before being donated to the National Arboretum in Washington DC in 1976 as a gesture of friendship between America and Japan to celebrate the American Bicentennial.

From the Book:
"In 1625, when Japan was a land of samurai and castles, I was a tiny pine seedling. A...

**2012 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner **

A cultural adventure for kids, All About Japan offers a journey to a new place--and ways to bring it to life Dive into stories, play some games from Japan, learn some Japanese songs.

Two friends, a boy from the country and a girl from the city, take us on a tour of their beloved land through their eyes. They introduce us to their homes, families, favorite places, school life, holidays and more

• Celebrate the cherry blossom festival
• Learn traditional Japanese songs and poems
• ...

Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan's creation myth told here for the very first time in illustrated form.