She reminded Sadako about the ancient Japanese legend that if a sick person folds 1000 cranes they with become healthy again. One afternoon her best friend from school, Chizuko, visited Sadako and made her a golden paper crane. She needed to stay in hospital but her parents weren’t allowed to stay with her over night. That’s when they found out she had Leukaemia from the radiation from the atom bomb. One day she passed out when she was running and was taken to hospital. When she was 12 she started getting dizzy spells especially when she was running. Sadako was very good at running at school, she hoped to get picked for the school running team. On the 6th August 1954, when Sadako was two years old, there was an atom bomb dropped by the U.S.A near her home in Hiroshima, Japan. ‘This book is about a Japanese girl called Sadako. I thought it would be fitting for this post to include her review of Sadako. So much so that she has set herself a goal of making a thousand paper cranes before the end of this year. Given her own recent battle with cancer, this book resonated with my 10-year-old daughter when she read it. Ten years later she died as a result of radiation from the bomb. Her courage made Sadako a heroine to children in Japan. She was in Hiroshima when the United States Air Force dropped an atom bomb on that city in an attempt to end World War II. ‘Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is based on the life of a real little girl who lived in Japan from 1943 to 1955. Book Depository purchase | Paperback edition
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