Calling all librarians! Please join us on Sunday, June 26 at this year’s ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition. Author Sachiko Kashiwaba and translator Avery Fischer Udagawa will be attending in person to celebrate the many accolades of Temple Alley Summer, including the 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award, a July/August 2021 Kids’ Indie Next Pick, and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.

When: June 26 at 2pm EST
Where: American Library Association
225 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1300. Chicago, IL 60601
Booth: 2219

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sachiko Kashiwaba is a prolific writer of children’s and young adult fantasy whose career spans more than four decades. Her works have garnered the prestigious Sankei, Shogakukan, and Noma children’s literature awards, and her novel The Marvelous Village Veiled in Mist influenced Hayao Miyazaki’s film Spirited Away. Temple Alley Summer received the 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award, was a July/August 2021 Kids’ Indie Next Pick, and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. She lives in Iwate Prefecture.

Avery Fischer Udagawa grew up in Kansas and studied English and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She holds an M.A. in Advanced Japanese Studies from The University of Sheffield. She has studied at Nanzan University, Nagoya, on a Fulbright Fellowship, and at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama. Udagawa is the translator of Temple Alley Summer by Sachiko Kashiwaba, which won the 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award, was a July/August 2021 Kids’ Indie Next Pick, and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. She writes, translates, and works in international education near Bangkok, where she lives with her bicultural family.