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 peopleA 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