When tsunami strikes Kenta’s small village in Japan, he ran to school far up the hill, where the waves couldn’t reach. Climbing to safer ground, Kenta watches helplessly as his prized soccer ball goes bouncing down a hill and gets swept away by the waves. When the tsunami recede, his family returned to their home, they found village ruined and could not find their belongings. Out on the ocean, Kenta’s soccer ball floated across the ocean. Finally the ball reached the other side of the world, where a boy picked the ball up and sent it back to Kenta, even though he could not read the word on the ball.
- ISBN: 9781554515776
- Author: Ohi, Ruth
- Illustrator: Ohi, Ruth
- Published: 2013 , Annick Press
- Themes: connections, natural disaster, Tsunami, watercolor
- Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Historical Fiction, Japan, Picture Book
- No. of pages: 32