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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 14 (1981)

Creative writingCriticism and research

Winners

2 people
Jun Okada おかだ じゅん award

A collection of fourteen stories told in the art-room storeroom after school each Monday by a school mouse that lives in the building and speaks human language. It finds wonder in the ordinary life of an elementary school through the pleasure of storytelling.

After school in the art-room storeroom, the school mouse begins to tell its stories.

166 pages
school lifewonderstorytellingimagination
堀直子 ほり なおこ award

Listen to Our Wings is a work of children's literature by Naoko Hori, published by Doshinsha in its Doshinsha Creative Series in 1980. It is known as the work that received the Japan Juvenile Writers Association Newcomer Award.

Naoko Hori's Japan Juvenile Writers Association Newcomer Award-winning work, published by Doshinsha in 1980.

214 pages
children's literaturegrowing upfriendship