“Star Trek” actor and political activist George Takei has an image e book scheduled for subsequent spring that pulls upon his early childhood years spent in internment camps for Japanese Americans.
Crown Books for Young Readers says that Takei’s “My Lost Freedom,” illustrated by Michelle Lee, might be revealed April 30, 2024. Takei, 86, spent three years in three completely different camps throughout World War II. The camps had been established after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an government order in 1942 authorizing the compelled elimination on the West Coast of these thought-about safety dangers, resulting in the incarceration of greater than 100,000 Japanese Americans.
“My childhood behind barbed wire fences is the reason I became an activist,” Takei stated in a press release. “It was clear that the story in regards to the injustices Japanese Americans confronted must also be informed in a approach that younger kids and their caregivers may perceive. Especially in at present’s political local weather, my mission is to convey this chapter of American historical past to kids in order that we will all develop up understanding each the fragility and the significance of democracy and our participation in it.”
Takei’s earlier books embrace “Oh Myyy!: There Goes The Internet,” about his substantial social media following, and the autobiography “To the Stars.”
Crown Books for Young Readers is an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.
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