The Velveteen Rabbit. Charlotte’s Web. The Hate U Give. For me, it was Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Based on the true story of Sadako Sasaki, it tells the story of a 12-year-old girl ...

Japanese folklore says folding 1,000 paper cranes can make a wish come true and restore health after an illness. The legendary tale of paper cranes was mostly unknown to the world until Sadako ...

Instead, she found herself in hospital where she heard that if she folded 1,000 paper cranes, she could wish for recovery. Sadako exceeded her goal, but she did not survive. One of the paper ...

Sadako became famous for making more than 1,000 origami cranes while she was hospitalized to pray for her recovery. After her death, a monument modeled after Sadako was set up at the Hiroshima ...