Juvenile Literature Newcomer Award
ようこそスイング家族 (わくわくライブラリー)
Yokoso Swing Kazoku is a children's novel about the Nobeyama family, who spend a year in a small village through a mountain-village study program. Through days in which the family works together, the eldest son Arata encounters different forms of family life and individual dreams, and grows through them.
mountain-village studyfamilygrowthcommunal life
Work Information
A year in a mountain village leads a boy to think about the shape of family and his own dreams.
Through a family's move from the city to a village, the novel looks at family and community from a child's point of view. It portrays not only family bonds but also the dreams and ways of living of the people they meet, showing how a new place expands a boy's world.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 講談社
- Published
- 1988-12-01
- Pages
- 269 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784061956155
- ISBN-10
- 4061956159
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
Amazon.co.jp: ようこそスイング家族 (わくわくライブラリー) : 大谷 美和子, 中村 悦子: 本