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    Banner image with an illustrated background of farmland and mountains. Foreground has a photo of writer Sara Truuvert and text reading Interview with Sara Truuvert A great book...honours young people’s imaginations and emotions and invites interpretation. Open Book logo bottom left
    October 06, 2023

    Sara Truuvert Explores a Child's View of Japanese Internment in Her Moving First Picture Book

    In Japanese folklore, a baku is a chimeric creature that children can call on to protect them from bad dreams – an eater of nightmares. In fiction writer and poet Sara Truuvert's first picture book Mira ...

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