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 ...

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.

HIROSHIMA--Metal replicas of paper ... cranes) will never fall into decay,” Masahiro Sasaki, 80, Sadako’s elder brother, said at a news conference in Hiroshima on Aug. 4, the day the full ...