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Description
This sweet story, intended for lower elementary grades, is intended to provide a window for discussing earthquakes, tsunamis, marine debris, preparedness and cultural awareness in the classroom and within families.
On April 7, 2013, a little over two years after the magnitude 9 Tohoku-oki Japan earthquake triggered a massive tsunami off the coast of northeastern Japan, a lone boat washed up on the shores of Crescent City, California. The confirmation of the boat as belonging to a high school in Rikuzentakata was first step in an amazing story that has linked two tsunami-vulnerable communities on opposite sides of the Pacific and initiated friendships between high school students in Rikuzentakata. This story is now told in a children’s book to be released by Humboldt State University Press in November, 2015. Co-authored by Humboldt State University Emeritus Geology Professor Lori Dengler and Amya Miller, the Director of Global Public Relations in Rikuzentakata, the book features illustrations by Arcata artist Amy Uyeki.
ISBN
978-0-9966731-8-1
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
Humboldt State University Press
City
Arcata
Keywords
Tsunamis, Japan, Juvenile non-fiction, Earthquakes, Cultural Exchange
Disciplines
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Oceanography | Tectonics and Structure
Recommended Citation
Dengler, Lori; Miller, Amya; and Uyeki, Amy. The Extraordinary Voyage of Kamome; A Tsunami Boat Comes Home. Humboldt State University Press, 2015. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/monographs/1.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
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Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Oceanography Commons, Tectonics and Structure Commons
Comments
This sweet story, intended for lower elementary grades, is intended to provide a window for discussing earthquakes, tsunamis, marine debris, preparedness and cultural awareness in the classroom and within families.
Author Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm-e3mJAQq8