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Edition 6 (2014) honorable mention
Taro Yachida
やちだ たろう
Yachida Taro
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1964-01-01 （Hokkaido, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- children's literature critic
- Active Years
- 1997-
- Affiliations
- Children's Literature Criticism Research Group, Japan Association of Children's Literature
- Memberships
- Japan Association of Children's Literature
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan School of Child Education (Nihon Jidō Kyōiku Senmon Gakkō) | — | Department of Children's Literature | — | — | Japan |
Japan School of Child Education (Nihon Jidō Kyōiku Senmon Gakkō)
Department of Children's Literature
Year of Graduation:
1999
Country:
Japan
Graduated March 1999 from the Department of Children's Literature.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Japan Association of Children's Literature Critics New Critic Award (6th) — Honorable Mention | On Children's Reading — A Consideration of Hiroshi Sunada's 'Where to Place the Basis of Children's Literature' | — | Japan Association of Children's Literature | 佳作 |
Japan Association of Children's Literature Critics New Critic Award (6th) — Honorable Mention
2014
Work:
On Children's Reading — A Consideration of Hiroshi Sunada's 'Where to Place the Basis of Children's Literature'
Organization:
Japan Association of Children's Literature
Result:
佳作
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Reading Children's Literature in the 21st Century
2018 criticism (co-authored)A co-authored critical volume produced with the Children's Literature Criticism Research Group, examining 21st-century children's literature from multiple perspectives.
children's literature theorycontemporary criticism
Considerations on Children's Reading — Interpretation from Narrative-internal Experience and Reality
2020 criticism (self-published)A self-published single-author work examining children's reading practices, focusing on the relationship between narrative-internal experience and interpretation from reality.
reading experiencenarratologychildren's perspective
Bibliography
- Reading Children's Literature in the 21st Century (co-authored, Children's Literature Criticism Research Group, Aug 2018)
- Considerations on Children's Reading — Interpretation from Narrative-internal Experience and Reality (self-published, 2020)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- logical, analytical critical prosescholarly yet accessible expression
- Recurring Motifs
- children's reading experiencesinteraction between narrative-internal experience and reality
Legacy
As a critic of children's literature, he has focused on examinations of children's reading and narrative experience. He contributes to publications and criticism as a member of the Japan Association of Children's Literature.
Academic Societies
- Japan Association of Children's Literature
Trivia
- Considerations on Children's Reading was self-published.
- Began activities with the Children's Literature Criticism Research Group in 1997.