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Saela Shobō Saela Shobō i(A142268 works by) (Organisation) assertion (birth name: さ・え・ら書房) (a.k.a. Saera Syobo)
Born: Established: 15 Aug 1948 Tokyo, Honshu,
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Japan,
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East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ;
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7 16 y separately published work icon A Bus Called Heaven Bob Graham , Bob Graham (illustrator), ( trans. Tomoko Kodama with title わたしたちのてんごくバス ) Tokyo : Saela Shobō , 2013 Z1815865 2011 single work picture book children's

'A broken, old bus appears one morning, sad as a whale on a beach, right outside Stella's house. On the front of it, held up with packing tape, is a hand painted sign... "Heaven".

'For Stella, this decrepit old vehicle is special -this bus is "ours" - a place for everyone to be together: hold meetings, play games and share stories. But one day, the bus is towed away and Stella must fight to save not just the bus, but everything the community has worked so hard to create.' (From the publisher's website.)
4 22 y separately published work icon Blueback Tim Winton , ( trans. Kotake Yumiko with title ブルーバック ) Tokyo : Saela Shobō , 2007 Z935140 1997 single work children's fiction children's 'Abel Jackson loves to dive. He's a natural in the water. He can't remember a time when he couldn't use a mask and snorkel to glide down into the clear deep. Life is tough out at Longboat Bay. Every day the boy helps his mother earn their living from the sea and the land. It's hard work but Abel has the bush and the sky and the bay to himself. Until the day he meets Blueback, the fish that changes his life. An ecological novel on a boy who protects a fish from property developers and rapacious fishermen. The boy befriends the fish, a blue grouper while diving for abalone, his family's trade. Blueback is about people learning from nature.' (Source: Trove)
6 4 y separately published work icon Being Brandie, Being Twelve Mary Tucker , ( trans. Chizuru Wakabayashi with title Buranzi hankoki massaityu ) Tokyo : Saela Shobō , 1999 Z833138 1995 single work children's fiction children's ‘Poor Brandie has just turned twelve and now everything seems to be different. Her body is changing in strange ways and her father expects her to behave like a young lady. Worst of all, Brandie and her mother just can’t agree about anything. And when Brandie’s mum decides it’s time for her to learn all about the facts of life, Brandie really freaks out! If this is what being twelve is all about, Brandie wants nothing to do with it.’ (Source: Back cover)
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