This is an older book, but still has some good, useful lessons within it. The illustrations are more old fashioned, but unique and descriptive. The illustrations really help to tell the story. As a reader the story was enjoyable and gives a good description that a child can understand of the fear that existed after the war.
As a teacher this would be a great book to have for a social studies lesson. The book shows that it doesn't matter what language a person speaks, because you can still communicate through other ways. It showed the fear between Japanese people and American soldiers, but it also shows how language barriers and cultural barriers could be broken. Some questions to ask might be: why did the men perform for the crowd? Why did the Japanese people fear the soldiers at first? How did they come to find out they were friendly?
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