Author: Chieri Uegaki
Illustrator: Stephane Jorisch
Title: Suki’s Kimono
Genre: Children’s picture book
Sub genre: Realistic fiction
Theme: culture, individual expression
Primary and secondary characters: Suki, obachan
Date: 2003
Publisher Company: Kids Can Press Ltd.
Brief summary on how to use for students: This book can be used by showing how students can be proud of their culture.
Summary: Suki is going to her first day of first grade and wants to wear her favorite blue kimono. With kids laughing and snickering, she explains to her class what she did this summer. Her obachan came to visit her and took her to a festival. Suki begins to dance in front of the classroom and afterwards, her teacher and classmates begin to clap. She danced happily all the way home.
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