Juvenile Literature Newcomer Award じどうぶんげいしんじんしょう
Edition 5 (1976)
Original fairy talesNovelsNon-fictionPoetryChildren's songs
Winners
2 peopleMichiko Takeda's children's work about Siebold's daughter. It tells the family story around a historical figure in a voice accessible to children, linking cross-cultural history with family memory.
A single spoon holds a father's memory and the time of a family crossing cultures.
191 pages
children's literaturehistorySieboldfamily
A story for young children by Noriko Hishii. Pairing a ghost and a cat, it is read less for fear than for humor and warmth.
The meeting of a ghost and a cat brings gentle wonder to young readers.
164 pages
early children's literatureghostcathumor