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Japan Children’s Literature Association Award にほんじどうぶんがくしゃきょうかいしょう

Edition 36 (1996)

Creative WorksCriticism and Research

Winners

1 people
Kenji Kitamura きたむら けんじ award

This children's novel follows Kenbo, a fifth-grade boy, as he tries to live through wartime. Told from his perspective, it considers how people hold on to their humanity amid hardship.

A story of a boy named Kenbo and the people who strive to live through wartime.

324 pages
wartimecoming of agehuman dignity