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 41 (2001)
Creative WorksCriticism and Research
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Ippei Mogami
award
A children’s book set in a depopulated mountain village, centering on old Otra and the fox of Nukui Mountain. Around the brief happiness of an elderly woman who gains someone to talk to, it portrays the humor and resilience of people living carefully in a rural community.
A small encounter in a mountain village brings warmth to days of old age.
174 pages
mountain villageagingsolitudepeople and naturehumor