Please join us on Monday, June 27 at the Japan Information & Culture Center (JICC) for a special in-person event with author Sachiko Kashiwaba and translator Avery Fischer Udagawa, presented by JICC, Embassy of Japan with support from Kodansha, Ltd., Restless Books, and Japan Foundation. Temple Alley Summer won the 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award, was a July/August 2021 Kids’ Indie Next Pick, and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.

When: June 27 at 3:30pm EST
Where: Japan Information & Culture Center (JICC)
1150 18th St NW Suite 100
Washington, DC 20036

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

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.