Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII

“Moss is a skilled author of historical narrative nonfiction for young readers; her tale is both well researched and well told. But it’s the visually stunning, sensitive illustrations by the hugely talented Shimizu that make the book a standout.” —New York Times Book Review

Author Marissa Moss and illustrator Yuko Shimizu’s Barbed Wire Baseball is a picture book that movingly tells a true story set in a Japanese American internment camp in World War II.

During World War II, Japanese Americ...