Title: ペンギン・ハイウェイ
Author: 森見 登美彦
Label: 角川文庫

Do you remember back in your childhood days when your awareness started to grow and started to wonder simple things in life like what’s there behind those big mountains at the end of your town, if that is the “end” of the world, or dilemmas like what came first the chicken or the egg. Those years where your curiosity about life itself ramps up and your adventurous side is in full splendor. Our protagonist in this story, a 4th grader kid called Aoyama feels the need to fill that curiosity, he investigate the answers to some of these questions and so he spends his days learning and taking notes about everything he finds worthy of interest, with the idea he’ll become a capable, competent adult.