Kodansha Children's Literature Newcomer Award こうだんしゃじどうぶんがくしんじんしょう
Edition 17 (1976)
Winners
3 peopleA prizewinning children’s work whose title suggests echoes of children’s voices and local memory, with a folkloric resonance.
A children’s story with the lingering feel of voices returning from the land.
Renkonmura no Musukotachi is children’s fiction about village life and boys growing up within a community, linking landscape with the time of growth.
Children’s eyes and daily lives come alive within a village landscape.
Three Liters of Moonlight joins an everyday measure with a fantastical image, opening the boundary between reality and imagination through a child’s sensibility.
Its title, as if measuring moonlight, quietly invites a child’s imagination.