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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 46 (2006)

Creative WorksCriticism and Research

Winners

2 people

A historical fantasy set in the late Heian period, following a boy gifted with the flute and a girl bound to dance. Art, spirits, faith, and war draw their love and destiny into a larger tale.

Flute and dance open a path through a darkening age and set two young lives in motion.

590 pages
late Heian periodperforming artslovehistorical fantasy

A critical study of representations of disabled people in children's literature. Through bodies, society, discrimination, and coexistence in fiction, it considers how books for children shape human understanding.

Reading the ethics and imagination of children's books through their portrayals of disability.

214 pages
children's literature criticismdisability representationcoexistencerepresentation