Otsukisama o Tabeta Yakkodako is a children's work by Rintaro Nagai that expands children's imagination through the familiar images of the moon and a kite. The bold idea of eating the moon in the sky gives the story a folktale-like delight.

A story of children's imagination filling the sky as 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.

Toshio Suzuki's series of works was recognized as a body of children's illustration created for publications from before the war into the postwar era. His modern, humorous style and approachable closeness to children's lives enriched the visual language of picture books and textbooks.

A body of work that brightened children's books through modern and approachable illustration.

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's series of works was recognized as a body of work that helped expand postwar children's comics as bright and approachable entertainment. The lively humor and charming character design seen in his representative work Anmitsu Hime helped broaden the readership of girls' and children's comics.

A body of work that broadened postwar children's comics through bright humor and charming characters.