Yoshiko Uchida; Wrote Children’s Books, Autobiography

Yoshiko Uchida, 70, who wrote several children’s books about the Japanese-American experience. From 1948 to 1991, Miss Uchida wrote 29 books, including 27 for children. Her works include “Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family,” published in 1982, and “The Invisible Thread,” an autobiography written for teen-agers and published in 1991. Miss Uchida was born in Alameda. Raised in Berkeley, she received a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in education from Smith College. On Sunday in Berkeley after a stroke.