The Wall

Japanese edition of The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. Winner of 2008 Caldecott Medal. A powerful combination of graphic novel and picture book, this is an account of growing up in Czechoslovakia under Soviet rule. Terrific design dramatizes the conflict between conformity and creative freedom, often through spare use of color; in many cases, the dominant palette of black, white, and Communist red threatens to swallow up young Peter's freely doodled, riotously colored artwork. In Japanese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.