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Anno's Journey
Anno's Journey
By: Mitsumasa Anno
SKU: 9781958955062
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- By: Mitsumasa Anno
- Pages: 48
- SKU: 9781958955062
- Media: Paperback
- Reading level: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Description
Follow Mitsumasa Anno on a leisurely journey through the countryside, farms, and villages of northern Europe. The richly detailed scenes are filled with the rhythm of everyday life: farmers tending fields, villagers going about their days, and the quiet beauty of the landscape unfolding page by page. With familiar storybook characters and famous composers peeking out from unexpected corners, every scene holds something new to discover.
Anno’s Journey was inspired by Anno’s own travels through Germany, England, and Scandinavia, and it remains one of his most beloved works. A celebration of culture, curiosity, and the joy of close observation, this is a book the whole family will return to again and again.
About the Author
Mitsumasa Anno was born in 1926 in Tsuwano, a small town nestled in the mountains of western Japan. Growing up surrounded by peaks and ocean, he developed a longing to see what lay beyond his isolated world. “Because my world was cut off from the outside world, first by the mountains and then by the ocean, the desire to go and see what lay on the other side grew stronger,” he once said. That curiosity never left him. After serving in the Japanese army during World War II, he spent ten years teaching mathematics in Tokyo. In 1968, he began his professional career as a picture book artist, bringing the same passion for learning that shaped his teaching to his artistic work.
Anno’s work earned him some of the highest honors in children’s literature, including the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1984, multiple first prizes for graphic excellence at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and selection for the New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. In 2001, the Mitsumasa Anno Museum opened in his hometown of Tsuwano, designed by Anno himself, as a place where children could come and explore science, math, and imagination firsthand. A lover of travel and culture, Anno believed that beneath all our differences, the heart of every human being holds the same inherent value, and his books reflect that belief on every page.
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