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"I cannot write about ideologies and themes beyond daily life. I am of the kind who believes that everyday life is what matters most."
-Andersen dossier
Momoko Ishii is now ninety-four years old. However, her dedication to children's literature, especially in Japan, has never stopped as an author, translator, critic, editor, and a pioneer for local children's libraries. The Japanese Board on Books for Young People declared "no doubt, [the] Japanese world of books for children could not have been as rich and well-developed as it is now without her" (Andersen dossier).
Momoko Ishii was born in Urawa, Japan, in 1907. She graduated from the Japanese Women's University with an English literature major. Later, "a blissful encounter with A. A. Milne's Pooh books led her...