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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 38 (2005)

Creative writingCriticism and research

Winners

2 people
Etsuko Shindo しんどう えつこ award

An adventure set in sixteenth-century Istanbul, following the fates of people drawn to the legendary blue tulip. As the shepherd boy Nefi and a professor try to create the flower, a mysterious power hidden in beauty begins to emerge.

A legendary blue tulip changes the fate of a city that loves flowers.

309 pages
children's literatureIstanbulflowersadventurebeauty and power
Saiki Kimiko さいき きみこ award

A scholarly study of modern Okinawan children's culture and literature, centered on Iha Fuyu's Taisho-period Kodomo no Kai. It also examines children's cultural activities in Yaeyama and the work of Iwasaki Takuji and Miyara Choho.

A study that reads modern Okinawan children's culture through regional and educational history.

334 pages
Okinawachildren's culturechildren's literature studiesIha FuyuYaeyama