In the "Journey" books, a tiny character travels through a nation's landscape, densely populated with pictures referencing that country's art, literature, culture, and history. ArtĪnno was best known for wordless picture books featuring small, detailed figures. He died on 24 December 2020 from cirrhosis of the liver.
They had two children, Masaichiro and Seiko. He taught mathematics for ten years in an elementary school in Tokyo before beginning a career illustrating children's books.Īnno lived in Japan with his wife, Midori. After the war, Anno earned a degree from the Yamaguchi Teacher Training College (a predecessor of Yamaguchi University) in 1948. Beautiful and evocative beyond words.” Anyone who is interested in China, or world travel generally, will enjoy this book.During World War II, Anno was drafted into the Japanese army. Shirin Bridges, author of Ruby’s Wish, said, “Anno’s China is full of joy and wonder. With his unique perspective on landscapes and the people who inhabit them, and his mischievous sense of humor, Anno has given the world books that educate, entertain, and delight by opening children across the world to cultures and lands distant from their own. They plan this sixty page wordless journey through China in a new study of theirs available this coming summer. Beautiful Feet Books, a literature-based homeschooling curriculum publisher, has just brought this title back into print. Anno’s China, which is book VII in the series “Anno’s Journey,” was initially published in Japan in 2009 but has never been available to U.
Scenes include bustling villages where the streets are waterways and everyone, even horses and bulls, travel by boat rivers on which flocks of ducks are herded the Great Wall and the discovery of thousands of Terracotta soldiers guarding the ancient tomb of China’s first emperor.Īnno, who won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his lasting contribution to children’s literature, is a lover of travel and culture and is famous for his illustrated books which take readers through a variety of countries. Through these delightfully detailed watercolors, Anno takes readers up China’s Yellow River to explore this vast and varied land where calligraphers can bestow good fortune, birds do fishing for men, and dragons dance in New Year’s parades. Anno’s China is basically a picture book with explanations and descriptions in the back of what the paintings show. In the 1970s his books began appearing in the United States, but it has been about two decades since a new book by Anno (Anno’s Magic Seeds, 1995) last found its way to America. 1926) is a Japanese author and artist who has written and illustrated over twenty books for children.
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