Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden Mr. Rogers to the right to go

to the right to go to school

this beloved fairytale is now available in a handsomely produced 40th anniversary edition

Translated from Danish by Michael Favala Goldman

Phoebe Wahl has melded truth with fiction and art with text

Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden Mr. Rogers to the right to go"Smith spins a quietly moving narrative Wada's large scale woodblock style illustrations are a perfect complement to the story's restrained text The graceful way in which this book handles a sensitive and serious subject makes it a first purchase." School Library Journal When the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father . . . and his voice. The entire village is silenced by grief, and the young child's anger at the ocean grows. Then