On New Year's Eve, Yuka witnesses a meeting of the crayons and sets out with Queen Silver to find King Golden, who has disappeared. Across a journey through the twelve months, the queen gradually confronts and corrects her faults in this fantasy adventure.

Guided by twelve colors, the queen and Yuka travel through a year, searching for the king while looking again at their own hearts.

A children's novel centered on a blind junior-high-school student raised in a mountain village. Drawing on the author's experience as a teacher at a school for blind students, it portrays disability and growth through everyday life and human relationships.

The steps of a boy with a white cane illuminate life in a mountain village and the people around him.

A commendation-winning work by Takashi Yamagata. Its title, a school named for the screw pine, suggests a children's story linking a vivid plant image with school life, community, and learning.

At a school named for the screw pine, children's daily life and learning become a story.

A commendation-winning work by Shizuyo Nishimura. Through the vivid image of a peacock feather, it suggests a children's story about beauty, longing, and the awareness of being seen.

The brilliance of a peacock feather reflects a child's longing and inner unease.

"Yasashii Senshi" is an early children's literary work by Hiroko Minagawa that received honorable mention in the Kodansha Children's Literature Newcomer Award. Written around the hidden Christians of Japan, it was later revised and published as the children's novel Umi to Juujika.

An early children's story on hidden Christians that marks the starting point of Hiroko Minagawa's fiction.