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Japan Children’s Literature Association Award にほんじどうぶんがくしゃきょうかいしょう

Edition 20 (1980)

Creative WorksCriticism and Research

Winners

2 people
Miyoko Matsutani まつたに みよこ award

My Anne Frank is a children's novel in which thirteen-year-old Yuko begins writing a diary addressed to Anne Frank after receiving The Diary of Anne Frank. Yuko's daily life intersects with her mother's thoughts on war and Auschwitz, bringing questions of freedom and human dignity into focus through the voices of a family.

A diary addressed to Anne links a girl's everyday life with her mother's memories, asking what war does to human dignity.

253 pages
children's literatureAnne Frankwarfamilyfreedom and dignity
Tsukasa Osamu つかさ おさむ award

Thirteen-year-old Yuko begins keeping a diary addressed to Anne Frank, while her mother Fukiko writes of her journey to Auschwitz and the memories it awakens. By crossing a girl's everyday life with her mother's encounter with history, the story asks young readers to think about war, discrimination, freedom, and human dignity.

Diaries addressed to Anne lead a girl and her mother toward the pain of history.

253 pages
Anne Frankwar and peacemother and daughterdiarieshuman dignity