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1: Yoko at School
My book is called Yoko. The main character is Yoko.
She brought lunch to school and she got made fun of by her classmates. They were in Yoko's classroom when this all happened. The reason why she got made fun of her was because her classmates did not like raw fish.
I would recommend this book to a kid or maybe even an adult who likes cultural food. By Mia
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2: Yoko
Yoko is the main character. People were saying yuck to Yoko's lunch and I didn't think that was very nice. They were at lunch time. They were in the classroom eating lunch and people were making fun of Yoko's lunch. Because Yoko's lunch didn't look good to Yoko's friends, she was sad. Yoko is a fabulous book because it's about friends who fight then and be friends again.
I think if you don't have ant thing nice to say then don't say it at all.
I think this book is interesting because Yoko knows how to use chopsticks.
by Emma
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3: Yoko
In school at lunch time Yoko did not feel accepted.
She wanted people to try her sushi. But people did
not want to try Yoko's sushi because it did not look
good to them. Yoko is a fabulous book because it teaches
you about friendship and try food to even if it does look good you .I recommend this book to people who
like learning. By Radhe
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4: WE LOVE YOKO!!
This is a great book about treating other children nicely no matter what their differences are. I take the opportunity when I read it to my little boys to tell them that we should never make fun of other kids, we should always make sure that they are being treated nicely. I absolutely love Rosemary Wells too. She writes incredible books.
My 3.5 yr. old loves this book so much that he named our new kitten YOKO!!
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5: Nice book, but...
My son brought this book home for us to read together. It starts out fine, with the Japanese cat Yoko bringing her delicious and healthy bento box lunch to school, only to have the rest of the kids make fun of it.
I was dissatisfied with the main character's reaction--she becomes a victim. I was also dissatisfied with the teacher's reaction: just ignore them and they'll go away. Well kids don't. They keep on until they are stopped. I guess in l998 the 'no bullying' rule was just being put into effect into schools around America (I had just come back from living overseas and was surprised at the strides schools had made in dealing with kids' classroom problems). Maybe the author hadn't learned about it yet? Yes, the teacher does enforce an International Food Day but still, nobody will touch little Yoko's deluxe bento box. What does she do? She goes and sits under a tree. I kept thinking, in real life, at this point in time, hopefully the mother would have gotten indignant, gone up to the principal and the teacher and demanded that the kids be taught in class to respect each other's ways of life and foods, and then at home would have sat Yoko down to tell her she has nothing to be ashamed of, that sushi has nourished their people for a very long time and she shouldn't feel pressured to eat what they eat (velveeta is just plain poisonous!)I know from personal experience the effort and time it takes to make sushi. It isn't hard but it is time consuming and in the end, well worth the effort. Raw fresh fish-- coupled with rice and wasabi--rocks!
Anyway it's nice that Yoko makes one sushi convert. You can't force people to eat differently but they need to be taught from day one that if you have nothing good to say about something don't say anything at all. Respect for others, self-respect and pride (the positive kind)in one's culture are important lessons that need to be taught starting in childhood. Fearlessness is another. I hope the author makes this character more self-assertive and less a victim of the dominant culture.
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