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

Edition 13 (1980)

Creative writingCriticism and research

Winners

2 people
浅川じゅん あさかわ じゅん award

Nakimushi Majo Sensei is a children's literary work by Jun Asakawa. Centering on the “crybaby witch teacher” of the title, it can be read as a story that does not reject vulnerability or tears, but stays close to children's feelings.

A children's story that warmly observes children's worries and kindness through a crybaby witch teacher.

221 pages
children's literaturewitchteachertearschildren's feelings
Izawa Yumiko いざわ ゆみこ award

Hiroshi no Uta ga Kikoeru is a children's novel by Yumiko Izawa. It portrays children carrying loneliness and shadowed pasts as they meet others, are hurt, and still try to keep themselves connected to the world.

A child in loneliness searches for a place to belong while encountering the voices of others.

189 pages
children's literaturelonelinesswounded childrenencounterresilience