William Yamaguchi Dobson
@wydobson.bsky.social
Children’s Author. Dad. Recovering lawyer. 🇯🇵🇬🇧
Rep: Lucy Irvine
https://www.darleyandersonchildrens.com/client/william-yamaguchi-dobson/
Rep: Lucy Irvine
https://www.darleyandersonchildrens.com/client/william-yamaguchi-dobson/
Thanks for the signal boost, Avery! ありがとうございます!🙇♂️
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Thanks for the signal boost, Avery! ありがとうございます!🙇♂️
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". . . [and is already] an Audible Original, with a full cast (starring many Japanese actors) out now in English-speaking territories. It will be published in April next year by Scholastic with the title KAMIZEN: Fortress of Lost Memories." 2/3 www.audible.com/pd/The-Fortr...
The Fortress of Lost Memories
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. When his grandfather begins to lose his memories to dementia, twelve-year-old Jonty is offered the chance to explore a magical realm where forgotten memorie...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:54 AM
". . . [and is already] an Audible Original, with a full cast (starring many Japanese actors) out now in English-speaking territories. It will be published in April next year by Scholastic with the title KAMIZEN: Fortress of Lost Memories." 2/3 www.audible.com/pd/The-Fortr...
After all these years, how wonderful to know the Iwasaki family’s story has been commemorated in a PB! I have many happy memories of them.
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
After all these years, how wonderful to know the Iwasaki family’s story has been commemorated in a PB! I have many happy memories of them.
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@wydobson.bsky.social lived in Tokyo until age 11 and spent summers near Obuse, where he sometimes rode in Iwasaki-san's station wagon. The Iwasakis also feature in the #picturebook The Nurse and the Baker by Mika Ichii, translated by Hart Larrabee. Legends! 3/3 ihatov.wordpress.com/2016/09/10/c...
Chelsea Buns in Nagano for #WorldKidLit Month
By Avery Fischer Udagawa, Bangkok September is #WorldKidLit Month, a time to notice if global stories are reaching kids in the form of translations. My children enjoyed one such story, and met the …
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November 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
@wydobson.bsky.social lived in Tokyo until age 11 and spent summers near Obuse, where he sometimes rode in Iwasaki-san's station wagon. The Iwasakis also feature in the #picturebook The Nurse and the Baker by Mika Ichii, translated by Hart Larrabee. Legends! 3/3 ihatov.wordpress.com/2016/09/10/c...
Thank you!!
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Thank you!!
The book will not be going on the shelf, but will remain within reach for future reference and re-reading, and I can't say that happens often.
December 29, 2024 at 8:53 PM
The book will not be going on the shelf, but will remain within reach for future reference and re-reading, and I can't say that happens often.
Listened to it. Mind and heart totally swept away.
November 17, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Listened to it. Mind and heart totally swept away.
Rufus says hi! He’s an Australian Labradoodle, going through the teenage phase. 🙈🐕🦺
November 17, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Rufus says hi! He’s an Australian Labradoodle, going through the teenage phase. 🙈🐕🦺