Reviews

Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss, Yuko Shimizu

mmattmiller's review

3.0

I thought the story was okay, and the illustrations were good. The focus of this story is definitely on baseball, and what it takes to make a good, meaningful game (how to make a solid field, the bleachers, the fans...) I prefer the book "Baseball Saved Us", as it gives more information about the camps, and what was happening historically, what the people went through. Again, this one focuses on baseball. If I could only have one in my classroom, I'd stick with "Baseball Saved Us", but I'd be happy to add this one to my classroom library as well.

literacydocent's review

5.0

Marissa Moss does such a wonderful job of presenting little known people who made a big impact on history in some way. She's done it again in sharing the story of Kenichi "Zeni" Zenimura, the "father" of Japanese American baseball. This picture book biography would pair nicely with Kathryn Fitzmaurice's historical fiction title, A Diamond in the Desert. The illustrations, afterword, and bibliography add to the strength of this book.


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