Recently Nissan announced 38 winning stories including the Grand Prix award for the "26th Nissan Children's Storybook and Picture Book Grand Prix" organized by the International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka, as part of Nissan's corporate citizenship activities.The Picture Book Grand Prize was awarded to "Ondeko no Sora" by Mr. Masaru Miyazaki and Ms. Toshie Miyazaki; and as the Grand Prize winning entry it will be published and made available in bookstores after December 2010, and also be donated to public libraries across the country. The "Nissan Children's Storybook and Picture Book Grand Prix" commemorates the May 1984 opening of the International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka, which is Japan's first comprehensive center for international children's literature. Through the publication of the Grand Prize winners, the contest aims to provide children with inspiring and imaginative storybooks and picture books. The publications are donated through Nissan offices to approximately 3,300 libraries and 700 kindergartens and nursery schools across Japan. More than 168,000 books have now been donated since the start of this Grand Prix. Read the full press release here.
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