other novels including Picture Bride, A Jar of Dreams, and The Bracelet deal with Japanese American impressions of major historical events including World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II, and the racism endured by Japanese Americans during these years. I try to stress the positive aspects of life that I want children to value and cherish. I hope they can be caring human beings who don't think in terms of labels—foreigners or Asians or whatever—but think of people as human beings. If that comes across, then I've accomplished my purpose. Over the course of her career, Uchida published more than thirty books, including non-fiction for adults, and fiction for children and teenagers. She died in 1992. Work on Japanese folk pottery In 1952, Uchida received a Ford Foundation Fellowship to study the folk pottery movement in Japan. She spent two years researching and becoming acquainted with major figures in that artistic current, including Shoji Hamada and Kanjiro Kawai. Uchida wrote a book with Kawai, We Do Not Work Alone: The Thoughts of Kanjiro Kawai. She collected several pots by Hamada and Kawai that she later donated to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Bibliography This is a partial list of Uchida's published work. Yoshiko Uchida wrote 34 books. The Dancing Kettle and Other Japanese Folk Tales (1949) New Friends for Susan (1951) The Magic Listening Cap: More Folk Tales from Japan (1955) The Full Circle (1957) Takao and Grandfather's Sword (1958) The Promised Year (1959) Mik and the Prowler (1960) Rokubei and the Thousand Rice Bowls (1962) The Forever Christmas Tree (1963) Sumi's Prize (1964) The Sea of Gold, and Other Tales from Japan (1965) In-Between Miya (1967) Hisako's Mysteries (1969) Sumi and the Goat and the Tokyo Express (1969) Makoto, The Smallest Boy (1970) Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese American Evacuation (1971) Samurai of Gold Hill (1972) The Birthday Visitor (1975) The Rooster who Understood Japanese (1976) The Bracelet (1976) Journey Home (1978) (originally published as a short story) Jar of Dreams (1981) Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family (Autobiography) (1982) The Best Bad Thing (1983) The Happiest Ending (1985) Picture Bride (1987) Two Foolish Cats (1987) The Terrible Leak (1990) The Big Book for Peace (1990) (Illustrated by Allen Say) Invisible Thread: An Autobiography (1991) The Magic Purse (1993) The Wise Old Woman (1994) References External links Yoshiko Uchida