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Novel Children's Literature Newcomer Award ちょうへんじどうぶんがくしんじんしょう

Edition 1 (2002)

Children's literatureNovel

Winners

4 people
Yuko Matsumoto selected

Mitsuru receives an invitation from a children's author she admires and visits the home of her aunt, who is also a writer. This fantasy follows a strange summer in which familiar people and places take on unexpected forms; the prize-winning manuscript, Koganeiro no Tsuki no Yoru ni..., was published as Ryūnnōru no Niwa.

An invitation from a beloved author leads Mitsuru to an aunt who may be a witch and to a mysterious garden.

214 pages
Magic and fantasyComing of ageFamily bondsPassing on stories
中里奈央 honorable mention

Boku ga Santa Claus ni Naru Made received an honorable mention in the first Novel Children's Literature Newcomer Award and was not an award-winning work.

狩生玲子 honorable mention

ジョギングとあんぱん is a work by 狩生玲子. It is associated with the 長編児童文学新人賞.

ジョギングとあんぱん by 狩生玲子.

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Seiji Midorikawa honorable mention

Shiori, a fifth-grade pupil, makes a daily habit of visiting the library where her cousin Miyako works as a librarian. Through small mysteries involving books, she broadens her connections with both people and reading.

A warm story of solving small book-related mysteries in a library.

206 pages
librarieseveryday mysteriesreadinghuman connections