Kannonko is a fantasy work discussed in the tenth Children's Literature Fantasy Grand Award selection process. Its premise involving a benevolent Kannon figure and a boy raises questions about how sanctity and action can become story.

The wish to save others and the boy who actually acts support the story.

Hazama no Mori is a children's fantasy built around boundaries between the underworld, an in-between realm, and this world. Through ogres and fairy-like presences, it explores the value of spaces often lost in modern life.

A forest between this world and another reflects the children's inner tasks.

A children's fantasy in which sixth-grader Shigeru and his friends search for a thunder orb after a keyaki spirit warns them of disaster. A dragon of the Kanda River, local memory, and a boy's growth converge toward a year-end deadline.

The search for a lost thunder orb changes a boy's winter in lasting ways.