Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is a heartbreaking story about a young girl who attempts to fulfill the legend of folding one thousand paper cranes to make her well again. It is a story of hope and perseverance. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes received a score of 630L on the Lexile scale m...
The story of Sadako Sasaki brings tears to my eyes. The author goes too far in her fiction for me to recommend it. In second grade our teacher read us a picture book about her life and her cranes, it wasn't this and I haven't been able to find it online, but the story stayed with me. It had lost mos...
written by Eleanor Coerr, illustrated by Ed Young Of all the books I read with Ama, Sadako is definitely one of the ones I most associate with our summers together (a few others are Harry Potter, The Giver, and Holes). After we read it, Ama taught me how to fold paper cranes and we made them out o...
I'm sure my review of this book is colored by nostalgia. It's a short, sweet story. I love the cover illustration and the calligraphy chapter titles. My biggest issue is the spoon Mieko uses while eating miso soup on pg 19 (I've never used a spoon while eating miso soup. You just eat it from the b...
I read this book 16 years ago after spending time among the paper cranes at Peace Park in Hiroshima. I did not cry any less reading it today.
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