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One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue
One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue | Ishii Takayuki
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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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monalyisha
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Congrats on reaching your milestone, @MatchlessMarie & thank you for the #1kgiveaway! (Deets on her page.)

My biggest literary confessions are:
1) I dog-ear pages
2) I‘ve never read anything by Jane Austen
3) I despise deckled edges
4) I don‘t like hardcover books
5) I care very little about Harry Potter (I respect JK Rowling‘s world-building ability & the effect she‘s had on children‘s literature, but I don‘t like her writing much at all).😱

Liatrek Number one was going to be my confession 😅 sometimes I want to get back to my favorite parts quickly. 7y
CoffeeNBooks I don't like hard cover books either! 7y
CoffeeNBooks @Liatrek Good point- I never thought about it that way. My books just have tons of sticky notes in them to mark pages, but those sometimes fall out. 😕 7y
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Amanda.T I don‘t get deckled edges either. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 7y
MatchlessMarie I hate deckled edges too unless it‘s genuine from a vintage book or something. Another one of my sins is not having read Harry Potter so I guess I‘ll find out if I like it eventually 😝 7y
LeahBergen I can forgive you everything except # 4. 😂😂 7y
monalyisha @LeahBergen Ha! They‘re much too bulky for me & the dust jackets just get in the way & I have to take them off... I like a book I can cuddle up with! 7y
monalyisha @MatchlessMarie I‘m interested to see what you think when you finally do get there! I‘ve only read the first 4 books, tbh. 🙈 7y
monalyisha @Amanda.T Too hard to turn the pages! 😆 7y
Ingerella Ha, we are twins! And I feel the same about hardbacks too! They don't fit in my purse and I like my books to travel easily. 7y
Susanbones #5 is blasphemy!! HAHA. JK. I fell in love with the movie first so I started reading the book biased-ly. 6y
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I woke up to the news of hitting a Litsy milestone this morning! Thanks for all the love, fellow Littens! 😻 #1000 #1k #LitsyMilestone

Ddzmini Congratulations 🎊🎉 7y
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For #day28 #nuclearcatastrophe I have no idea how I remembered this book but I remember reading it in either elementary school or middle school and remember thinking how beautiful and heartbreaking of a story it was. The little girl who wanted to fold 1,000 paper cranes before she passed away. Anyone else ever read this story? #marchmadness

Smangela Yes, loved this one too! 8y
vrleth I‘ve been looking for this book like forever! I read it in 5th grade and never forgot it ☺️ I also never forgot how to fold a paper crane 7y
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