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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 59 (2010)

Children's literaturePicture booksNonfiction

Winners

2 people
Sachiko Kashiwaba かしわば さちこ award

At a small rural library, librarian Momo is visited by characters from picture books who want to know what happens next in their stories. Set in a library, this children's novel warmly explores reading, storytelling, and the way people find one another again through books.

Voices asking for the rest of their stories draw librarian Momo into a strange and tender adventure.

242 pages
librariesthe power of storiespicture-book charactersnew beginningsfantasy
Nobuo Onishi おおにし のぶお award

This photographic picture book follows a pig farm in Kagoshima. Through photographs and simple words, it watches pigs being born, nursing, growing, and eventually becoming connected to the table. The book shows that eating also means receiving life.

A photographic picture book that looks at where meat on the table comes from through the life of pigs.

87 pages
food educationreceiving lifelivestock farmingphotographic picture bookeveryday food