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Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award あすとりっど・りんどぐれーんきねんしょう

Edition 1 (2003, held 2 times in year)

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Maurice Sendak もーりす せんだっく Winner

Max runs away in a wolf suit and reaches the island of the wild things, where he becomes their king. The brief story turns imagination, loneliness, and belonging into a vivid picture-book fable.

Max crosses over to the land of the wild things.

48 pages
imaginationgrowing upbelongingloneliness