Akiko Hayashi’s Good Evening Mr. Moon is still available at all book shops in Japan, in print since 2006. No fanfare… no Caldecott Medal… but will likely live on shelves forever. While this outlier success seems as rare as one’s book reaching Captain Underpants levels, her book is part of a much larger group of “quiet evergreens” and seems to have the l…
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