Event photos: Naomi’s Tree launch
Author Joy Kogawa and illustrator Ruth Ohi launched their new children’s book Naomi’s Tree (Fitzhenry & Whiteside), the story of a Japanese family whose lives in Canada are uprooted by the events of the second World War, at the Japan Foundation in Toronto on May 8. (All photos courtesy of Fitzhenry & Whiteside.)
Ruth Ohi does some onstage illustration.
Joy Kogawa reads before an attentive crowd.
Ohi and Kogawa pose with their new book.
Japan Foundation director Masayuki Suzuki, Ohi, refugee lawyer Chris Kurata, Kogawa, and Japan Foundation chief librarian Mariko Liliefeldt.
