# The House of the Lost on the Cape - Hardcover

by **Sachiko Kashiwaba** (Author), **Avery Fischer Udagawa** (Translator), **Yukiko Saito** (Illustrator)

**A 2024 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Honoree**

**A 2024 USBBY Outstanding International Book**

**One of Kirkus Reviews' 10 Essential Middle-Grade Books for Fall 2023 -- Starred Review**

**One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Middle-Grade Family Stories of 2023**

**A 2023 Cybils Awards Finalist for Speculative Middle Grade Fiction**

**From the author and translator of the Batchelder Award-winning novel _Temple Alley Summer_ comes the moving story of three generations of women adapting to their new home, and its mythical inhabitants, in the tragic aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake disaster.**

In the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Yui, fleeing her violent husband, and Hiyori, a young orphan, are taken in by a strange but kind old lady named Kiwa in the small town of Kitsunezaki​​. The newly formed family finds refuge in a mayoiga, a lost house, perched atop a beautiful cape overlooking the sea. While helping to rebuild Kitsunezaki, the three adapt to their new lives and supernatural new home, slowly healing from their troubled pasts. Kiwa regales Yui and Hiyori with local legends--from the shapeshifting fox-woman who used to roam the mountains, to the demon Agamé and a sea snake who once terrorized the townspeople, preying upon their grief and fears until they trapped the snake and the demon's claws in an underwater cave.

But when mysterious and sinister events start happening around town, the three fear the worst. Did the earthquake release Agamé and the sea snake into the world again? Kiwa, Yui, and Hiyori join forces with a merry band of kappa river spirits, a bold zashiki warashi house spirit, and flying Jizō guardian statues to save their new family and home and banish Agamé and the snake once and for all. Now a hit anime film, _The House of the Lost on the Cape_ is a heartwarming tale about the strength of family and friendship in the face of natural and mythical forces.

### Author Biography

**Sachiko Kashiwaba** is a prolific writer of children's and young adult fantasy whose career spans more than four decades. Her works have garnered the prestigious Sankei, Shogakukan, and Noma children's literature awards, and her novel _The Marvelous Village Veiled in Mist_ influenced Hayao Miyazaki's film _Spirited Away_. Her works have recently been animated as the films _The Wonderland_ and _The House of the Lost on the Cape_. Her novel _Temple Alley Summer_, illustrated by Miho Satake and translated by Avery Fischer Udagawa, won the American Library Association's 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award, was a July/August 2021 Kids' Indie Next Pick, and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. She lives in Morioka, Iwate.

**Yukiko Saito** is a graphic designer and illustrator originally from Aomori, Japan. She studied textile arts in the fine arts and crafts teacher training program within the Faculty of Education, Iwate University. She lives in Iwate Prefecture.

**Avery Fischer Udagawa** grew up in Kansas and studied English and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She holds an MA in advanced Japanese studies from the University of Sheffield. She has studied at Nanzan University, Nagoya, on a Fulbright fellowship, and at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama. She writes, translates and works in international education near Bangkok, where she lives with her bicultural family.

**Number of Pages:** 224

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** September 19, 2023

**Award:** Mildred L. Batchelder Award (2024)

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