Taka no Ko is a children's literary work by Michio Sagawa. It is confirmed in the Chikuma Shobo Shogakusei Zenshu series under the katakana title Taka no Ko. Through an encounter with a young hawk, the story looks at life, growth, and wildness as seen through a child's eyes.

An encounter with a young hawk leaves a child with the strength of life and the pain of parting.

Yasuo Maekawa's "River General" and "The Village's First Star" are early works of postwar children's literary realism. Through children's lives around rivers and villages, they portray nature, community, and a gaze toward state power and authority from a child's perspective.

These new writer award-winning works depict society and nature as seen by children through life along a river and in a village.