This nonfiction book for young readers follows Buddhist priest Koji Uchida, who saw people in Cambodia forced to use polluted water and continued working to dig wells. It presents water, health, and international cooperation from a perspective children can understand.

One well brings hope into the lives of children in Cambodia.

Mineko Koyama’s poetry collection uses gentle language to portray familiar animals, nature, and children’s perceptions. As one volume in a trilogy, it carries small everyday discoveries in the rhythm of poems.

With the kind of imagination that turns a tail into a crayon, the poems transform everyday colors into verse.

Awarded for Kitamura Kenji’s body of children’s fiction, including Kujaku Toride kara no Utagoe. His work centers on adventure, growth, and the courage children find when stepping into unknown worlds.

クジャク砦からの歌声を含む創作実績 is a work in which 北村けんじ draws out the time and emotion beneath its subject.