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)
Winners
2 peopleNakimushi 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.
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.