"War is Coming to Town" by Romana Romanyshyn (author/writer), Andriy Reshiv (author/writer), and Mizuhito Kanehara (Bronze Shinsha)

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Romana Romanyshyn (author/writer), Andriy Reshiv (author/writer), Mizuhito Kanehara (translator)
Published by Bronze Publishing
290mm length x 214mm width 36 pages
Regular price 1,600 yen + tax
ISBN978-4-89309-709-5

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Specification Winner of the 2015 Bologna Ragazzi Prize, this is a picture book about peace and war written for children by a Ukrainian author. It has been translated and published in 15 languages around the world. In the beautiful town of Londo, people grow flowers, build unusual houses, and live happily while talking to birds and plants. But one day, "war" suddenly comes. The townspeople, who have no idea about "war," are flustered. Danka, Zhirka, and Fabian, who love their town, use all their wisdom and abilities to try to save Londo from the darkness.

Author Profile
Romana Romaneesin (Romana Romaneesin) (Author/Writer)
Picture book author and artist. Both were born in 1984. They are based in Lviv, Ukraine. They graduated from Lviv State University of Fine Arts. They are the directors of the art studio Agrafka. In 2011, they won the Publisher's Award at the Bratislava International Children's Book Fair (BIB). This work was published in 2015, won the Bologna Ragazzi Award, and has been translated and published in 15 languages around the world. They are an up-and-coming unit that has attracted attention from around the world, including "See and Feel the World - A Picture Book That Reveals the World," which won the Gold Medal at the BIB International Children's Book Fair in 2017, and "Loud, Quiet, Whispering - A Picture Book That Hears Sounds" (both translated by Yukiko Hiromatsu, Kawade Shobo Shinsha), which won the Bologna Ragazzi Award in 2018.

Andriy Reshiv (Author/Writer)
Picture book author and artist. Both were born in 1984. They are based in Lviv, Ukraine. They graduated from Lviv State University of Fine Arts. They are the directors of the art studio Agrafka. In 2011, they won the Publisher's Award at the Bratislava International Children's Book Fair (BIB). This work was published in 2015, won the Bologna Ragazzi Award, and has been translated and published in 15 languages around the world. They are an up-and-coming unit that has attracted attention from around the world, including "See and Feel the World - A Picture Book That Reveals the World," which won the Gold Medal at the BIB International Children's Book Fair in 2017, and "Loud, Quiet, Whispering - A Picture Book That Hears Sounds" (both translated by Yukiko Hiromatsu, Kawade Shobo Shinsha), which won the Bologna Ragazzi Award in 2018.

Mizuhito Kanehara (Translation)
Translator and professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Hosei University. Born in Okayama Prefecture in 1954. He is an active translator of foreign literature, mainly for children and young adults, and has translated over 600 books. His translations include the "Adventures of the Mouse Series" (Bronze Shinsha), including "Lindbergh: The Great Adventure of a Flying Mouse," "Bartimaeus" (Seizansha), and "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" (Futabasha), among many others. His adaptations of Japanese classics include "Kanadehon Chushingura" (Kaiseisha) and "Ugetsu Monogatari" (Iwasaki Shoten), and his works include the biography "John Manjiro" (Iwasaki Shoten) and the essay collection "Salinger Taught Me How to Make a Martini" (Ushio Publishing).

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