One Thousand Paper Cranes

One Thousand Paper Cranes
Author: Takayuki Ishii
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2001-01-09
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0440228433

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.

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
Author: Eleanor Coerr
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 81
Release: 1987-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0698118022

Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For the legend holds that if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the extraordinary courage that made one young woman a heroine in Japan.

Sadako's Cranes

Sadako's Cranes
Author: Judith Loske
Publisher: Michael Neugebauer Books
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2011
Genre: Girls
ISBN: 9789881512604

Sadako is ill. She hears of a Japanese legend which says that a person who folds 1000 paper cranes is granted a wish. Hoping to recover she starts folding cranes. This is the story of a girl from Hiroshima.

Origami Peace Cranes

Origami Peace Cranes
Author: Sue DiCicco
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2017-11-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 146291974X

**Winner Creative Child Magazine 2018 Preferred Choice Award** Origami Peace Cranes is a multicultural children's book about the capacity for friendship in all of us, and the power of small, but meaningful actions. When Emma moves to a new town, she's afraid she'll never make friends. She tries her hardest to make a good impression on her new classmates. Through a paper crane origami project, her classmates show her that they really want to get to know her. Later, when a new family moves into her neighborhood, Emma has a great idea how to make them feel welcome! Filled with fun pictures and ideas, this story addresses the anxiety that comes with new beginnings and introduces kids to moving, making new friends, and starting at a new school. This book also includes: Step-by-step instructions for making a paper crane 12 sheets of printable origami paper, so that kids can make their own cranes to share! Proceeds support the Peace Crane Project--originally created for the United Nations International Day of Peace, it aims to expand students' understanding of and appreciation for other cultures, people and countries.

Sachiko

Sachiko
Author: Caren Barzelay Stelson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (R)
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2016
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467789038

This striking work of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945, and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath. Having conducted extensive interviews with Sachiko Yasui, Caren Stelson chronicles Sachiko's trauma and loss as well as her long journey to find peace. This book offers readers a remarkable new perspective on the final moments of World War II and their aftermath.

A Thousand Cranes

A Thousand Cranes
Author: Kathryn Schultz Miller
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780871290045

The Girl with the White Flag

The Girl with the White Flag
Author: 比嘉富子
Publisher: Kodansha International
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9784770029317

In 1945 Okinawa, a seven year old girl is wandering about carrying a white flag.