Katie Yamasaki

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Honda: The Boy Who Loved Cars

Illustrated by: Katie Yamasaki
Age Level: 6-9

Young Soichiro Honda loved to figure out how things work, and better still, create his own inventions. As a young man, he struggled in school, but he soon became a successful mechanic and manufacturer — steps that would one day enable him to realize his dream of building motorcycles and automobiles. Mark Weston shares fascinating details of Honda's life story and Katie Yamasaki's whimsical paintings evoke Honda's pioneering spirit and imagination in this intriguing biography.