No Graduation in Wonderland

No Graduation in Wonderland
Kyoko Nakajima

186 mm x 130 mm
214 pages
JPY 1,600
ISBN 9784790717720
Pub date: August 2022

Storyteller,Kyoko Nakajima’s First Collection of Essays on Children’s Literature. 
In childhood, when fantasy is everyday life, everyone has time to travel to other worlds. The joy of immersing yourself in a story will sustain you for a long time. Open a book and meet the child inside you. From Winnie the Pooh to Earthsea - 18 stories that nurtured the writer.

Points of Appeal
1) Remind adults of the joy of immersing themselves in fiction
2) Enjoy the masterpieces of children’s literature read around the world

Table of Contents
Preface

1. Playing with words in Pooh Woods: A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner
2. From a galactic station to a dazzling fantasy World: Kenji Miyazawa, Night on the Galactic Railroad
3. What each of them did for their best friend: Erich Kästner, Dot and Anton
4. Overwhelming happiness immersed in the story: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
5. Persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished: Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
6. Agricultural girls communicate with plants: Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
7. Wonderland doesn’t allow graduation: Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-Glass
8. In the wardrobe meet fantasy: C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
9. Korpokkur is our teacher: Satoru Sato, A Little Country Nobody Knows
10. If only there were love. As long as there is love. No matter how harsh the world may be: Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio
11. What will happen to a girl with talent?: Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy
12. Wendy’s Sorrow: J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan and Wendy
13. “Nonessential and nonurgent” and The Gray Men: Michael Ende, Momo
14. Man can surely realize what he can imagine: Jules Verne, Two Years’ Vacation
15. Reflection, forgiveness, and reconciliation are wisdom: Runer Jonsson, Vicky the Viking
16. The story of The Ruggles family like the world of Rakugo, traditional Japanese comic storytelling: Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street
17. What is “time”? The best time-travel science fiction: Philippa Pearce, Tom’s Midnight Garden 
18. A gift from Le Guin, reworked for the twenty-first century reader: Ursula K. Le Guin, Earthsea

Reviews
“To encounter No Graduation in Wonderland is the best of luck.”—Yasuko Yagi, bookseller

Author Information
Kyoko Nakajima: Novelist, born in Tokyo in 1964. She has won numerous literary awards like the Naoki Prize in 2010 for The Little House, the Izumi Kyoka Literary Award in 2014 for When My Wife Was Shiitake Mushroom, the Murasaki Shikibu Literary Award in 2020 for The Dreaming Imperial Library, the Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Award in 2022 for A Friendly Cat.