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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 21 (1980)

Children's literature

Winners

2 people
池原はな いけはら はな award

"Kitsunekko Sensei" is a children's literary work by Hana Ikehara. Set around school life and a child's imaginative world, it shows how a story can open out from familiar places, accompanied by illustrations by Yoko Imoto.

A familiar place becomes, through a child's eyes, the entrance to a wondrous world.

141 pages
children's literatureschoolimaginationteachersa child's place
森百合子 もり ゆりこ award

Sayaka's Small Blue Notebook is a children's novel by Yuriko Mori. It follows fourth-grader Sayaka as she lives with her uncle alongside her younger brother Jun, who has become unable to speak well, and gradually faces her own feelings in a new environment.

A children's novel about a girl's emotional growth through life with her younger brother and a new household.

261 pages
children's literaturefamilysiblingscoming of agelanguage