Our new series for families begins with the Japanese style of storytelling, kamishibai, currently making its way into 700 schools throughout the state of Arkansas. A Promise Kept is about the friendship and promise between two elementary school boys, Mitch and Tom, before, during, and after World War II. This story is especially for kids in fourth through sixth grade. A craft activity where kids can create their own make-believe pets will follow the kamishibai presentation.

A Promise Kept was written for [/projects/lifeinterrupted/ Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in World War II Arkansas], a multiyear project of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum. Major funding provided by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.