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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 41 (1992)

Children's literaturePicture booksNonfiction

Winners

3 people
Natsuki Ikezawa いけざわ なつき award

A linked story collection about Tio, a boy living on a southern island, and the people and mysterious events he encounters. Travelers, postcards, memory, and parting quietly appear within the island's simple life.

Tio, a boy on a southern island, discovers the wideness of the world through each encounter.

285 pages
children's literatureislandencounterslinked stories
Joko Iwase いわせ なるこ award

A children's novel about Rui, a girl who refuses to speak at school, and Tanigawa, a transfer student. A child's closed-off heart gradually begins to move through contact with another person.

Tanigawa's direct voice reaches the heart of a girl who will not speak.

118 pages
children's literatureschoolsilencefriendship
Hideo Ito いとう ひでお award

A picture book that receives the memory of the sea and summer through expansive images. Seen through a child's eyes, it evokes beach light, family time, and the tenderness of a season passing.

Bright sunlight and the smell of the tide bring one boy's summer vividly to life.

1 pages
seaside summerchildhood memoryfamilypicture-book expression