Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
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Born in Hiroshima in 1943, Sadako was the star of her school's running team, until the dizzy spells started and she was forced to face the hardest race of her life-the race against time.
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Why is it Anne Frank is so well known and a recommended read for young children learning about war and this one never came across to me until I started an Eastern Hemisphere study for my own children. Sadako covers so much. We listened to the audiobook while my nine-year-old read along on a day out spent in the car driving here and there.
Sadako covers cancer and impending death even in children as well as in the elderly. We stopped the audio to introduce the topic of Hiroshima and about war. We've never touched these topics before and this was a great subtle, gentle introduction.
Hiroshima. War. Poverty. Aftermath. Cancer. Leukemia. Hope. Community. Death. Asian culture.
So much good here. We borrowed it from the library but I highly intend to get us a copy eBooknor otherwise for our shelf. - 2018
UPDATED, March 2020: We now own a little pink Penguin Puffins Classics edition illustrated by Ronald Hilmer. I've heard there is an edition Illustrated by Ed Young (we have come to enjoy from Lon Po Po and Yeh-Shen). Coming from first experiencing the Audiobook it will be interesting to see pictures.
