魔女宅急便特別篇３半個魔女

魔女の宅急便 [Majo no Takkyūbin] #SP3

by Eiko Kadono, 角野榮子, 佐竹美保 (Illustrator)

一列開往森林深處的火車，一個只看得見半個滿月的女孩，
一場關於魔法與祝福的尋找之旅 就此展開
塔塔覺得這個世界很奇怪，為什麼她永遠只看得到半個月亮，只有她聽得半夜神祕的歌聲，她從來沒想過，自己可能是「半個魔女」……

塔塔的心像個刺蝟，長滿尖銳的刺，每天都在跟全世界吵架，直到在閣樓裡找到了母親遺留下來的古老魔法書，書上寫著《終點之門》，她被書裡的奇怪文字嚇到了。於是，在十五歲這一年，她獨自搭上了前往森林最深處的列車，開始了「尋找之旅」……

故事中出現了一位抱著「掃帚吉他」的少年托托，讀過《魔女宅急便6各自的旅程》的讀者會認出來，他正是魔女琪琪的兒子。

這是一篇獨立的故事，喜歡《魔女宅急便》的讀者會發現作者在本書更加開拓了「魔女」的世界觀，並且延伸了魔法的意義。而即使是沒讀過主線故事的讀者也會喜歡《半個魔女》，從這位「半個魔女」塔塔，發現魔法的力量是用來相信自己，並且從而想要認識琪琪、蔻蔻等「魔女前輩」。

Genres: Japanese Literature

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 14, 2022

About the author

Eiko Kadono (角野栄子) is a Japanese author of children's literature, picture books, non-fiction and essays in Shōwa and Heisei period Japan. Kadono was born in Tokyo, and attended the Nihon Fukushi University in Aichi prefecture, followed by a degree in English literature from Waseda University. After graduation in 1960 at the age of 25, she emigrated to Brazil, where she spent two years. She wrote a nonfiction story called Brazil and My Friend Luizinho based on her experience at that time, about a Brazilian boy who loves dancing samba. This was her maiden work, but it was not published until 1970. Most of her works are books for children. Her first successful children's book published Ôdorabô Bula Bula shi [The Robber Bla-Bla] was published in 1981. In 1985, she published the children's novel Majo no Takkyūbin, which was later adapted into the Hayao Miyazaki animated film with the same title. Both the novel and the film are known by the English title Kiki's Delivery Service. The book was awarded the Noma Children’s Literature Award, and she followed on this success with four sequels in the same series. She is the 2018 recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award.