Three of Yashima's works have been Caldecott Medal runners-up, Umbrella, Crow Boy, and Seashore Story. Umbrella, Taro Yashima (Viking) Momo proudly. Yashima's works have been widely praised by critics for their simplicity and vivid colors that convey movement and feeling, and for his sensitivity to children's concerns, a first umbrella and kitten, the torments of being different and teased for it. I Was So Mad, Norma Simon (Albert Whitman) Children identify with the various reasons for getting so mad. Yashima also wrote several books based on his daughter, Momo, including Umbrella(1958) and Momo's Kitten(1961). Like several of his later works, it would focus on his and his collaborator's (and wife), Mitsu Yashima, experiences growing up in Japan. Yashima's first book specifically for children, The Village Tree,came out in 1953. His first work, autobiographical in content, The New Sun, was published in 1943. Iwamatsu was born September 21, 1908, in Nejima, Kimotsuki District, Kagoshima, and raised on the southern coast of Kyushu. Yashima began writing and illustrating books in the 1940s. Product Details About the Author Taro Yashima was the pseudonym of Atsushi Iwamatsu, a Japanese artist who lived in the United Staes during World War II. Its a colorful book with striking illustrations that will have kids checking the weather every morning. He first used the pseudonym Yashima during his service with the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. Umbrella by Taro Yashima Momo cant wait for a rainy day so she can debut her birthday presents red rain boots and an umbrella.

He studied art in Tokyo at the Imperial Art Academy from 1927 to 1930 and later at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1939 to 1941.

Taro Yahima (the pseudonym for Jun Atsushi Iwamatsu) was born in Septemin Kagoshima, Japan, and immigrated to the United States in 1939.

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