Akane-chan's Sea of Tears is part of Miyoko Matsutani's Akane-chan stories, entrusting a child's sadness and anxiety to the image of the sea. It wraps emotional uncertainty and family warmth in language accessible to young readers.

A gentle story receives feelings so large that tears become a sea.

The House of Seagulls is a children's novel that sets seaside life beside a child's loneliness and the search for family and belonging. Akio Yamashita's sea-scented descriptions quietly illuminate anxiety and hope.

Around a house by the sea, a child's loneliness and hope arrive like waves.