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Jan 09, 2001 | ISBN 9780440228431 | Young Adult Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Jan 25, 2012 | ISBN 9780307806345 | Young Adult Buy
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Jan 09, 2001 | ISBN 9780440228431 | Young Adult
Jan 25, 2012 | ISBN 9780307806345 | Young Adult
The inspirational story of the Japanese national campaign to build the Children’s Peace Statue honoring Sadako and hundreds of other children who died as a result of the bombing of Hiroshima.Ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Sadako Sasaki died as a result of atomic bomb disease. Sadako’s determination to fold one thousand paper cranes and her courageous struggle with her illness inspired her classmates. After her death, they started a national campaign to build the Children’s Peace Statue to remember Sadako and the many other children who were victims of the Hiroshima bombing. On top of the statue is a girl holding a large crane in her outstretched arms. Today in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, this statue of Sadako is beautifully decorated with thousands of paper cranes given by people throughout the world.
Takayuki Ishii was born in Tokyo. He is presently the pastor of Metropolitan-Duane United Methodist Christ, a multicultural congregation in New York City.
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