And after that, in early 2022, she will release the picture book “Love in the Library,” based on the true story of her Japanese American grandparents and their internment during World War II. “I feel like people who have been marginalized and punished should have space to imaginatively take revenge.” It’s due out in October. Tokuda-Hall’s next book, the graphic novel “Squad,” goes in a different direction, focusing on female werewolves who are “killing boys, just all the time,” she said, laughing. The School Library Journal called it “ a dark and creative story, laced with romance, and not for the faint of heart,” while another reviewer said it was a “breathless adventure that wouldn’t let me sleep until I’d devoured every last word.” The same cannot be said of the Bay Area native’s most recent book, “The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea” (2020), a young-adult fantasy pirate adventure, whose two main characters are queer women battling imperialism, colonial conquest and gender norms in a violent, dangerous world. The imaginative, award-winning book is for children 3 to 7. Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s engaging picture book “Also an Octopus,” published in 2017, presents young readers with a ukulele-playing octopus who wants a purple spaceship, and then invites them to choose where they want the story to go. Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund.
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