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march 03, 2023 - Nissan
Nissan announces winners of children’s book competition
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced the winners of the 39th Nissan Children's Storybook and Picture Book Grand Prix, organized by the International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka.
Rin Koutari won the Storybook Grand Prize for “Atashi wa Hon wo Yomanai” (“I don’t read books”). Manna Umehara won the Picture Book Grand Prize for “Nanka Hitori Ookunai?”
(“Aren’t we one person too many?”).
The competition, part of Nissan’s corporate citizenship activities, attracted 2,167 entries from amateur authors and illustrators.
“Atashi wa Hon wo Yomanai” is the story of how an elementary school girl who doesn’t like reading books nurtures friendships through them. The lively depictions of the main character, Yui, and her classmates, as well as the structure of the story and the interesting title, all earned high praise.
“Nanka Hitori Ookunai?” tells the tale of cousins who gather at their grandfather’s house in summer. Its black and white pictures of a traditional Japanese house superbly drawn on copperplate earned high praise for how well they expressed the mood of the house where zashiki warashi — a child ghost who is supposed to bring good fortune — would appear.
In addition, three storybooks and three picture books were awarded special prizes, and 20 storybooks and 10 picture books won prizes for excellence. The Grand Prize winners will be published in December by BL Publishing Co., Ltd.
The International Institute for Children's Literature hosts the event to help develop children's imagination and creativity. It was launched in 1984 to commemorate th institute’s opening. Nissan has sponsored and supported the competition from the beginning.
The competition also gives talented amateur authors and illustrators an opportunity to have their works published. More than 126,000 entries have been received since the program’s start and 71 books have been published.
Over the past 39 years, Nissan has donated more than 280,000 books to libraries and childcare facilities across Japan, as well as to Japanese schools and Japanese language schools overseas.
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