'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Ages 3-7.Ĭopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. 'Soon I will come back to Japan, just like the cranes,' Yoko's birthday greeting says, and while the book doesn't portray her return, youngsters will know that, no matter how far away their grandparents may be, their love will find them. The boxed collages form the main images but, in traditional Japanese style, their borders are porous: leaves fall and cranes fly out into the white margins Yoko's posted letters and origami diagrams prance across the bottom of the pages. AfterSchool Kidzlit is a program of reading and connected activities for grades K to 8, with appealing books and easy-to-use leaders guides for: games. Yoko, meanwhile, sports flowered patterns and spring-inspired colors Wells outlines the heroine's vignettes in plaid frames. She dresses the endearing grandparents in autumnal-hued kimonos cut out of silk-screened paper against backgrounds of woodblock-style ocean waves and wind-blown pines. Wells differentiates between the two homelands in palette and artistic style.

When Obaasan's birthday approaches and Yoko doesn't have the money to buy her a present, she sends her some origami cranes, folded just as Ojiisan had taught her. When Yoko moves to California, she remembers her Grandmother and Grandfather in. Title: Yokos Paper Cranes Author: Wells, Rosemary Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children Publication Date:. Yoko's grandfather, Ojiisan, inspired by the winged visitors, showed his granddaughter how to fold cranes out of paper. When Yoko was very small, she and her Grandmother, Obaasan, fed the cranes in the pond at the end of the garden. Yoko writes weekly to Japan to her beloved grandmother, Obaasan, whose garden is visited each year by migrating cranes. Wells returns to the plucky heroine she introduced in Yoko with this wistful story about the green-eyed kitten and her far-away grandparents.

Yoko's Paper Cranes by Rosemary Wells