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Shogakukan Children Publishing Culture Award しょうがくかんじどうしゅっぱんぶんかしょう

Edition 5 (1956)

Children's literaturePicture booksNonfiction

Winners

2 people
小山勝清 award

Yamainu Shonen is a juvenile novel by Katsukiyo Oyama, evoking a wild story of a boy associated with mountain dogs. Kaiseisha's author profile describes it as a Japanese counterpart to the wolf-boy story and places it among Oyama's representative award-winning works for young readers.

An award-winning work by Katsukiyo Oyama that shows the wild energy of his juvenile fiction.

juvenile fictionwildnessmountain dogsgrowthnature and humans

Yuhi is an illustrated work by Chihiro Iwasaki that links a child's feelings with the light of evening. Through soft colors and gentle lines, it captures the quietness of sunset and the lingering feeling it leaves in a child's heart.

In the evening light, a child's shifting feelings and quiet afterglow come through.

children's illustrationsunseta child's inner lifecolor