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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.
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One Thousand Paper Cranes, Takayuki Ishii
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1997
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- One Thousand Paper Cranes
- Untertitel
- The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Takayuki Ishii
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1997
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 112
- ISBN10
- 0440228433
- ISBN13
- 9780440228431
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Kinderbücher, Biografien, Historische Romane, Klassiker, Wissenschaft, Kriege, Tod, Japan, Asien, Atombombe, Leukämie, Asiatische Kunst
- Beschreibung
- 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.