Author of the best-selling book "Shogakko ga Daisuki" which has sold over 130,000 copies author Ui donated proceeds from book sales to the Noto Peninsula Earthquake of 2024.

Ui (currently a first-year junior high school student), author of the best-selling book "Shogakko ga Daisuki" (written in the second grade of elementary school), which sold 130,000 copies, will donate the proceeds from the sales of two booklets he wrote on the occasion of the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake. The total amount of the sales from January 14 to May 15, excluding the settlement fee.

I heard that a friend of mine donated his New Year's gift, so I decided to donate half of my own New Year's gift and the proceeds from the sales of the booklets.

I hope that this "reading leads to support" system will bring even more smiles to the faces of those who decide to read the book and further support the people of the Noto Peninsula as we enter the school entrance season.

We will donate the sales of the booklet "Shogakko ga Daisuki" and other proceeds

■Outline of donation

Donation: Half of your own New Year's gift and sales of the booklet (all amount except for Yahoo! Shopping transaction fee)

＜Book sales donation

Period: Sunday, January 14, 2024 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Booklet: "Shogakko ga Daisuki (I love Shogakko) (booklet)

　　　　　 https://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/akimotoshoji/paimgmt24b.html

　　　　　 We, elementary school students, can change the world just by knowing about it."

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How to purchase: Purchase from the sales website

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<About donation destinations

We are currently researching possible donation recipients and pondering where to make donations.

We will report on the donation amount and recipients on the sales website and elsewhere after May 15.

Profile: Uyi (Akimoto Uyi, resident in Aichi Prefecture, Japan), a first-year junior high school student

I was born in May 2010 and am now 13 years old. She is the eldest of three sisters.

Her father published "50 Things I Want to Tell My 20somethings (Diamond Inc.)" in December 2017, which inspired her to write a book. 2018, when she was in the second grade, she self-published "Shogakko ga daisuki" (I Love You), and in April 2019, Gakken (now Gakken) published it as a picture book It was published by Gakken (now Gakken) as a picture book in April 2019. It is now also available in Chinese and has become a bestseller with over 130,000 copies sold.

I also became interested in LGBTQ issues when I was in the third grade of elementary school and conducted an interview with a transgender person as part of my free research. In the fourth grade of elementary school, she compiled these interviews and published a booklet, "We, elementary school students, can change the world just by knowing about it." and self-published it at his own expense. She published a picture book, "Minna Egao ni Nani ni Narimasu" (May We All Become Egao) (Gakken), adding content from an online interview with Audrey Tan, Taiwan's Minister of Digital Affairs at the time, and Robert Campbell.

The name Ui was named after the concept of "party consciousness," a child who can think of you as me, and the first person is always "we (us).