Kawatare: The Kappa Cat of Sanzaigaike is a children's novel in which a lone young kappa is sent into the human world in the form of a cat and learns about loneliness, family, and friendship through a girl and her dog. Set against nature and kappa folklore around Kamakura, it makes the supernatural feel vividly close.

A story of loneliness and friendship between a girl and a kappa transformed into a cat.

Like, Like, a Winter Forest is a children's literary work by Rumi Nomoto. Through the quiet setting of a winter forest, it can be introduced as a story about a child's perceptions, metaphorical seeing, and distance from the outside world.

Children's literature that catches a child's senses in the setting of a winter forest.