One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue by Ishii Takayuki
One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue by Ishii Takayuki
English | Jan 9, 2001 | ISBN: 0440228433 | 63 Pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | Jan 9, 2001 | ISBN: 0440228433 | 63 Pages | EPUB | 2 MB
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.