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3-5 Ichigaya Sadohara-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8450 Japan |
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+81-3-3260-3229 Fax: +81-3-3260-3540 |
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The 2008 Bologna Book Fair
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| May 2008 |
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Once again, Kaisei-sha exhibited at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which took place between 29th March and 3rd April. With many visitors to the stand, the four days of the fair were a great success. Taro Gomi’s books were as popular as ever, and will surely continue to be published in even more countries around the world. Also, Guardian of the Sacred Spirit which will be published across America by Arthur A. Levine Books in June, received a lot of interest from editors around the world, and we can expect it to be translated into many other languages from now on. Of our picture books, 100 in Total received the most attention. Thanks very much to everybody who came to visit us.
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| Publication of ‘My Brother, Vincent’ |
| May 2008 |
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The bond of the Van Gogh brothers – Vincent, stoically pursuing his own road to become an artist, and his younger brother Theo, always encouraging him and sending him money – has been made into a beautiful picture book, based on the letters exchanged between the pair, which tell us a lot about their lives. The illustrator is forerunning artist Hideko Ise. She also has translated a book related to the Van Gogh brothers. Ise has been to visit the same roads that Vincent walked on, and this work was born from a multitude of her sketches from that time. |
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NEW! My Brother, Vincent
by Hideko Ise
29 x 24 cm, 40 pages, Full-colour illustrations
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| Publication of Prequel to the Guardian Series |
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A further book was published in April to add to the very popular Guardian series, which was displayed at the Bologna Book Fair, and whose tenth and final volume was published in Japanese last year. The book, a collection of stories exploring why the series’ main character Balsa pursued her fate from a young age, is a prequel, from which the first book in the series, ‘Guardian of the Sacred Spirit’, follows directly on. The Guardian series has a huge number of fans in Japan, to the point that the edition entered its second run after just three days.
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NEW! Guardian Short Story Collection -
The Wanderer
by Nahoko Uehashi,
illus. by Makiko Futaki
22 x 16 cm,
366 pages,
Black-and-white illustrations |
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| A new addition to the Vehicles series! |
| May 2008
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A book about a digger has been added to the bus, police car and home delivery van in the children’s favourite Vehicle series. What kind of vehicles will be coming next?
NEW! Scoop Scoop! Digger
by Fumiko Takeshita
illus. by Mamoru Suzuki
21 x 26 cm, 32 pages, Full-colour illustrations
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Pin Pon Bus
by Fumiko Takeshita
illus. by Mamoru Suzuki |
Pin Pon Bus Goes to the Seaside
by Fumiko Takeshita
illus. by Mamoru Suzuki |
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On the Road with the Home Delivery Service
by Fumiko Takeshita
illus. by Mamoru Suzuki |
Hurrah for the Police Car!
by Fumiko Takeshita
illus. by Mamoru Suzuki |
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| Two Much-Requested Books Reprinted |
| May 2008 |
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In response to many requests from bookshops and readers, Kaisei-Sha are reprinting 2 past volumes. The first is the short story ‘The Brave Little Goat of Monsier Séguin’, written by French author Alphonse Daudet and illustrated by Chiyoko Nakatani. Beautiful illustrations tell the tale of how a goat which has escaped from its master bravely fights a wolf that it meets on a mountain. The second volume is ‘Dumpling Soup’, a heart-warming story published in 1997 about an old man who has lost his wife, and thinks of her as he remembers the dumpling soup which she always made, finally treating a large group of his friends to dumpling soup that he himself made. The illustrations are those of Paris-dwelling artist Satomi Ichikawa, who is active in France and America.
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The Brave Little Goat of Monsier Séguin
by Alphonse Daudet
translated and adapted by Eriko Kishida
illus. by Chiyoko Nakatani
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Dumpling Soup
by Eiko Kadono
illus. by Satomi Ichikawa |
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