When actor George Takei was 4 years old, he was labeled an"enemy" by the U.S. government and sent to a string of incarceration camps. His new children's book about that time isGeorge Takei was just 4 years old when when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066:
"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.'"Michelle is Michelle Lee, the illustrator — and researcher — for the book. Lee relied heavily on Takei's text and his excellent memory, but it was the research that both agree really brought the art to life.
Takei says he was impressed with how Lee managed to capture his parents: his father, the reluctant leader and his mother, a fashion icon in her hats and furs."This has been the first time that I've had to depict real people," Lee adds. One illustration in the book shows the work that Takei's mother put in to make that barrack — no more than tar paper and boards stuck together — a home.
One morning they had funny bumps. Then they lost their tails and their legs popped out. They turned into frogs!"
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