Ikiru Koto no Imi connects children's literature with educational questions, asking how the meaning of living can be conveyed to children. In the award context, it matters as a work that treats children's literature as both thought and practice.

A work that looks at the question of life at the root of literature for children.

The second volume of Yokotani Teru Jido Bungaku Ronshu, including Gendai Jido Bungaku e no Toikake, gathers Teru Yokotani's criticism of children's literature. It asks how modern children's literature should face children's realities and shows the meeting point of creation and criticism.

A critical reconsideration of the responsibilities and possibilities of modern children's literature.