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Sankei Children's Publishing Culture Award さんけいじどうしゅっぱんぶんかしょう

Edition 49 (2002)

children's books

Winners

1 people
Henning Georg Mankell へにんぐ まんける grand prize

A nonfiction account of Sofia, a girl in Mozambique who loses both legs to a land mine yet slowly regains the strength to live. It conveys the wounds war leaves on a child's body and family, while also holding on to hope.

A land mine can take a girl's legs, but not her spirit.

211 pages
land mineschildren and warMozambiqueresilience