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.
| ISBN: | 9780440228431 |
| Publication date: | 9th December 2013 |
| Author: | Takayuki Ishii |
| Publisher: | Laurel Leaf an imprint of Random House Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 97 pages |
| Genres: |
People / Places History Warfare & Battles |