Sachiko Kashiwaba
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. Her works have recently been animated as the films The Wonderland and The House of the Lost on the Cape, and her novel Temple Alley Summer, illustrated by Miho Satake and translated by Avery Fischer Udagawa, won the American Library Association’s 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award. She lives in Morioka, Iwate.
By Sachiko Kashiwaba
Illustrations by Yukiko Saito
Translated from the Japanese by Avery Fischer Udagawa
Yonder: Restless Books for Young Readers
A 2024 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Honoree
A 2024 USBBY Outstanding International Book
A 2024 CCBC Choices Title
★ One of Kirkus Reviews’ 10 Essential Middle-Grade Books for Fall 2023 — Starred Review
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Middle-Grade Family Stories of 2023
A 2023 Cybils Awards Finalist for Speculative Middle Grade Fiction
From the author and translator of the Batchelder Award–winning novel Temple Alley Summer comes the moving story of three generations of women adapting to their new home, and its mythical inhabitants, in the tragic aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632063373
Publication date: Sep 19, 2023