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Asahi Student Newspaper Children's Literature Award あさひがくせいしんぶんしゃじどうぶんがくしょう

Edition 9 (2018)

Children's Literature

Winners

1 people
緒川さよ おがわ さよ award

A children's novel about Tatsuko, a fifth-grade girl living with her grandmother, who has dementia, and growing as she accepts changes in her family life. Through her search for moments when her grandmother's memory connects, the story depicts care, family bonds, and loss from a child's point of view.

A girl facing her grandmother's fading memory searches for words that can reconnect it.

212 pages
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