Here are the six books selected by local teen Kai Vanderlip, with assistance from Lake Washington School District librarians, for his Day of Remembrance Japanese Incarceration Literature for Libraries project.
"The Cat Who Chose to Dream" by Loriene Honda, with illustrations by Jimmy Tsutomo Mirikitani and an introduction by George Takei.
Honda's book is from the point of a view of a cat who chose to be incarcerated as a gesture of support for his Japanese American family. Mirikitani, the illustrator, was himself incarcerated during the war, and was the subject of the 2006 documentary "The Cats of Mirikitani."
