The phone booth in Mr. Hirota's garden / Heather Smith ; illustrated by Rachel Wada.
When the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father... and his voice. The entire village is silenced by grief, and the young child's anger at the ocean grows. Then one day his neighbor, Mr. Hirota, begins a mysterious project--building a phone booth in his garden. At first Makio is puzzled; the phone isn't connected to anything. It just sits there, unable to ring. But as more and more villagers are drawn to the phone booth, its purpose becomes clear to Makio: the disconnected phone is connecting people to their lost loved ones. Makio calls to the sea to return what it has taken from him and ultimately finds his voice and solace in a phone that carries words on the wind.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781459821033 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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Awards Note: | Freeman Award. Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award. |
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Subject: | Telephone booths > Juvenile fiction. Grief > Juvenile fiction Death > Juvenile fiction Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction Authors, Canadian Picture books Picture books for children |
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- 8 of 9 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Terrace Public Library | E SMI (Text) | 35151001097393 | Easy Books | Volume hold | Available | - |