Japanese Literary Awards

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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 people
Michiko Takeda たけだ みちこ award

Michiko 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
ひしいのりこ ひしい のりこ award

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