Changed "novel" to "book" in several instances where the latter was clearly intended, as these were non-fiction titles. "Novel" and "book" are not synonymous; there are plenty of books that are not novels.
{{Nihongo|'''''Shōnen Sekai'''''|少年世界<ref name="BackwardsTitle" group="note">Written in [[Kyūjitai]] (traditionally) and read from right to left in its traditional format. The [[Shinjitai]] equivalent is written the other way around: 少年世界 and uses the standard "Nen" (年, ''years'') [[Kanji]].</ref>||"The Youth's World"}}, is one of the first ''[[shōnen]]'' magazines published by [[Hakubunkan]] specializing in [[children's literature]], published from 1895 to 1914. ''Shōnen Sekai'' was created as a part of many magazine created by Hakubunkan that would connect with many different parts of society in Japan. Sazanami Iwaya created the ''Shōnen Sekai'' magazine after he wrote ''Koganemaru'' a modern piece of children's literature. After Japan had a war with Russia, a female adaptation of ''Shōnen Sekai'' was created named ''[[Shōjo Sekai]]''. Also some children's books were translated to Japanese and published in ''Shōnen Sekai''. The magazine had many features too, such as [[sugoroku]] boards and [[baseball cards]]. ''Shōnen Sekai'' was mentioned in many American novelsbooks but no series were actually translated.
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== ''Shōnen Sekai'' media in the English language ==
''Shōnen Sekai'' was mentioned various times in many English novelsbooks. In the novelbook ''The New Japanese Women: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan'' mentioned ''Shōnen Sekai'' in the notes to chapter 3 as one of many magazines that Hakubunkan made to relate to different parts of society.<ref name="New Women" /> ''Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Asia: From the Taiping Rebellion to the Vietnam War'' also mentioned ''Shōnen Sekai'' as a popular magazine of that time, with an additional mention to ''Shōjo Sekai'', its female equivalent.<ref name="Wartime Asia"/> ''Issei: Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii'' mentioned ''Shōnen Sekai'' as just a publication of Hakubunkan.<ref name="Issei"/> In the novelbook ''No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai'i During World War II'' had mention of Shimanuki Hyotayu who writes about immigration matters in ''Shōnen Sekai''.<ref name="SwordBury">{{cite book|last=Odo|first=Franklin|year=2004|title=No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai'i During World War II|publisher=[[Temple University Press]]|location=Philadelphia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=72Lsn7KbIFcC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=shonen+sekai|isbn=1-59213-270-7|page=29|accessdate=17 December 2008}}</ref> ''Shōnen Sekai'' was also mentioned in both ''The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright'' and ''Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period''.<ref name="Blossoms">{{cite book|last=Shirō Inouye| first=Charles|year=1998| title=The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyōka (1873-1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright|publisher=Harvard Univ Asia Center|location=Cambridge, Mass|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=be-UQpeoRbQC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=Sh%C5%8Dnen+Sekai+Hakubunkan|isbn=0-674-80816-9 | page=80|accessdate=17 December 2008}}</ref><ref name="ModernMyths">{{cite book|last=Gluck|first=Carol|year=1987|title=Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period|publisher=[[Princeton University Press]]|location=Princeton, N.J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VwxT4IAWxd0C&pg=PA360&lpg=PA360&dq=Sh%C5%8Dnen+Sekai+Hakubunkan|isbn=0-691-00812-4|page=360|accessdate=19 December 2008}}</ref>
The closest thing to an actual series published in English was ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' which was originally in the English language.<ref name="Wolf Boy"/> ''The Jungle Book'' was published in the United States by [[Macmillan Publishers]] in 1894 and is currently being published by them in London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://us.macmillan.com/thejunglebook|title=The Jungle Book|work=Macmillan Publishers|accessdate=17 December 2008}}</ref>
