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 ...
HIROSHIMA--Metal replicas of paper cranes folded by atomic bombing victim Sadako Sasaki are now on sale, offering an ever-lasting symbol of hope and peace. “They (the reproduced cranes ...
Sasaki with Clifton Truman Daniel in 2009 Clifton says his son, then aged 10, brought a book titled "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" home from school. The story of human suffering moved he ...
Sadako died of leukemia at the age of 12 in 1955. As she fought the disease at a hospital, she folded countless paper cranes to wish for her recovery using medicine wrapping paper and other materials.