Sachiko Kashiwaba

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Sachiko Kashiwaba (born 1953 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan) is a prolific writer of children's and young adult fantasy whose career spans more than four decades and more than one hundred books for children. Her 1975 debut novel, The Marvelous Village Veiled in Mist, published in English in 2025 as The Village Beyond the Mist, influenced Hayao Miyazaki's film Spirited Away. Her work has won the Sankei, Shogakukan and Noma children's literature awards, and two of her books have been adapted as the animated films The Wonderland and The House of the Lost on the Cape. Temple Alley Summer (2011), translated by Avery Fischer Udagawa, was her first novel published in English in the United States and won the 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award; The House of the Lost on the Cape was a 2024 Batchelder honoree. She lives in Morioka, Iwate.

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• The Village Beyond the Mist (1975) · The Village Beyond the Mist Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 finalist mention)

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