Who knows the little country

Author: (Japan) Takashi Sato
Translator: Zhu Ziqiang
Country: Japan
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book is the pioneering work of Japanese fantasy fiction and has won the Daily Publishing Cultural Award, the Japan Children's Literature Association Newcomer Award, the Japan National Award of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award, and was selected as a recommended book by the Japan National School Library Association.
During the summer vacation of third grade, I met a little girl wearing a red hat on Ghost Gate Mountain. She was barefoot, and one of her shoes was washed away by the water. While chasing after her shoe, I found several insect-like things moving inside the small red athletic shoe. Upon closer inspection, they weren’t insects but two or three tiny little people, waving their cute little hands at me.
Later, I and the little people of Little Country became familiar with each other, from strangers to friends, from suspicion to trust, and became close companions in adversity. Later, I moved to a place far away from Ghost Gate Mountain for school. For a long time, I didn’t go to Ghost Gate Mountain, and there was no news about Little Country.
After ten or twenty years passed, I returned to my hometown and met the little people of Little Country again. However, disaster struck from the sky. The local transportation bureau wanted to level the small mountain where Little Country was located to make way for a new road. So, how could I help the little people save their Little Country?
This book is the pioneering work of Japanese fantasy fiction and has won the Daily Publishing Cultural Award, the Japan Children's Literature Association Newcomer Award, the Japan National Award of the International Hans Christian Andersen Award, and was selected as a recommended book by the Japan National School Library Association.
During the summer vacation of third grade, I met a little girl wearing a red hat on Ghost Gate Mountain. She was barefoot, and one of her shoes was washed away by the water. While chasing after her shoe, I found several insect-like things moving inside the small red athletic shoe. Upon closer inspection, they weren’t insects but two or three tiny little people, waving their cute little hands at me.
Later, I and the little people of Little Country became familiar with each other, from strangers to friends, from suspicion to trust, and became close companions in adversity. Later, I moved to a place far away from Ghost Gate Mountain for school. For a long time, I didn’t go to Ghost Gate Mountain, and there was no news about Little Country.
After ten or twenty years passed, I returned to my hometown and met the little people of Little Country again. However, disaster struck from the sky. The local transportation bureau wanted to level the small mountain where Little Country was located to make way for a new road. So, how could I help the little people save their Little Country?