Kodansha USA Holds NYC Book Signing, Talk, Film Screening for Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel Novel – News

Kodansha America Publishing Company announced on Wednesday that it will hold a book launch party for release of Tetsuko Kuroyanagiof Xiaodoudou: the little girl by the window:sequel (Little Doudou of small logs) novel published in New York City and held a book club with the novel’s translator Yuki Teshima On November 22, a book signing will be held with Teshima at the 53rd Street Branch of the New York Public Library Kinokuniya Screened at New York Bookstore on November 24th Xiaodoudou: the little girl by the window Screening of animated films at the Japan Society in New York on November 25th.

Screenings of the film will include a panel discussion with editor Teshima Alexandra McCullough-Garciaand Nathan Shockey, associate professor of Japanese at Bard College. The screening will also include a book signing.

Kodansha America Publishing Company Novel description:

More than forty years ago, Japanese pop culture icon Tetsuko Kuroyanagi The memoir ends with a chronicle of her childhood adventures at the unconventional Tomoe Academy, a beloved school that was burned down by bombs during World War II. Now, inspired by contemporary events, she returns to continue Toto’s story! Beginning with her family’s frantic flight from Tokyo and the worst of the war, Kuroyanagi details how the little girl overcame hunger and pain to become a trailblazing actress, a champion of the deaf and children around the world, and one of the most successful entertainers in Japanese history.

Kuroyanagi will release the sequel novel in Japan in October 2023

Tetsuko KuroyanagiThe original memoir tells the story of her going to school at Ba Academy after not adapting to her original elementary school. Even as Japan descends into war, she meets unique students and learns new things at school. Kuroyanagi published the book in Japan in 1981, and it became a bestseller the following year. It became required reading for Japanese elementary school students in the 1980s and has been translated into English and many other languages ​​around the world.

Kuroyanagi published the book in Japan in 1981, and it became a bestseller the following year. It became required reading for Japanese elementary school students in the 1980s and has been translated into English and many other languages ​​around the world. The book is still printed in English today Kodansha America Publishing Company .

animated film adaptation Open Held in Japan in December 2023. Xinying Animation won this Hiroshi Okawa On February 7, the film won the award at the 3rd Niigata International Animation Film Festival. won Winner of the Paul Grimaud Feature Film Award at the 2024 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The film won On March 19, it won the New York International Children’s Film Festival’s Animation Feature Film Award.

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