Otsukisama o Tabeta Yakkodako is a children's work published in 1953 by the children's playwright Rintaro Nagai. Centered on the image of the moon and a yakko kite, it received the second Shogakukan Children's Culture Award.

An imaginative children's work suggested by its title, in which a yakko kite eats the moon.

Einosuke Ito's "Goro the Fox" is a work of children's literature by an author known for rural fiction. Through the familiar folk-tale figure of a fox, it appears to depict nature, daily life, and the relationship between people and animals.

Through a fox story, this work of children's literature conveys nature and human life to young readers.

Nakaba Nitanosa's "The Calf's Friends" is a children's literary work about a calf and its companions. It conveys the closeness between children and animals, rural life, and the joy of nurturing life in a story accessible to young readers.

Through a calf and its companions, this children's work portrays the warmth of life and daily living.

This award recognizes Toshio Suzuki's achievements in children's illustration over many years, rather than a single book. His modern, humorous style enriched the visual expression of picture books and textbooks.

Teikichi Miyoshi's "series of works" refers to his picture-book and children's illustration work in children's publishing. With an artist's eye for nature and living things and clear images that reached children, he contributed to postwar children's culture.

The award subject is not a single book but the body of illustration and picture-book work that Teikichi Miyoshi contributed to children's publishing.

Shosuke Kurakane was recognized for his body of work in children's comics, rather than for an individual book.