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Take Me Out To The Yakyu (2013)

by Aaron Meshon(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1442441771 (ISBN13: 9781442441781)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

review 1: "Take Me Out to the Yakyu" shows a little boy who is very passionate about the sport of baseball. Not just American baseball, he also really loves Japanese baseball. The story revolves around the trip he takes to the baseball games with his two grandfathers. One grandfather lives in America, and the other lives in Japan. Both trips are different, but also very similar. In America, the baseball game happens in the stadium, while in Japan it happens in the dome. He also takes different transportations to each game. While at one place his grandfather buys him a foam finger, at another he gets a giant plastic horn. The food is also very different, however, the game's not. Even though in both countries they use different methods of calculating the speed of the baseball pitched,... more they are both thrown the same. They might have different chants, but they both want to hit a homerun! The songs, the score, the souvenirs, and cultures might also be different, but one thing is not. The boy really enjoys his day when it comes to baseball! I really loved this book, because I feel like I can relate to it. The boy in this story is from two different countries, the United States and Japan. My parents are both from South Korea, but I was born and raised in the US. As the boy compares the game of baseball and what's it like in each country, you can really feel what he is going through. I thought it was brilliant though, how the author represented it in the story. Personally, I feel like it would be really hard to compare the two different cultures, but the author did really well. One by one, he would show them side by side, the differences in each picture. Also the way the author mixed some Japanese words into the text, I thought was very entertaining. It not only potentially taught children some basic Japanese words, but also made it more relatable. When the little boy shows the Japanese culture, that's when he uses the Japanese words. And if the readers didn't understand some of the words, the author even included the translation at the end. One last thing I did notice, was how the grandfathers were represented. The American grandfather was very hairy and was the image of most American dads, as the Japanese grandfather was almost hairless and dressed very differently. I thought that little detail of the pictures was very creative.
review 2: 32 pagesLexile Level: AD610LAge Range: 5-7, but older kids would find the Japanese aspect interesting.Summary:This baseball picture book compares a boy’s experience of going to a baseball game in America and in Japan. In the book the left page is about baseball in the U.S., while the right page is about baseball in Japan, so young readers can easily compare and contrast the pictures and words that are side by side. For instance, did you know that in Japan, people let balloons go and sing their team’s anthem during the 7th inning instead of singing our traditional song “Take me out to the ball game.” The book compares many things: how people get to the game, what people eat at the game, how they measure the speed of a pitch, and various other neat things.Comments & Recommendations:I would definitely recommend this picture book for teaching young kids about baseball and diversity. It is very easy to understand, and there is only 1-2 sentences on the page, so you can easily explain each concept. The comparing and contrasting can be very useful for kids a little older who are already interested in baseball. The pictures are colorful and large and very enjoyable. In the back of the book there is a glossary of words: showing the word in English and in Japanese and even has the picture Japanese language shown by the Japanese word. 5 out of 5 starsReviewed By: Jen T. less

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