Here are Some Great Books, Videos, and Music for You to Learn More About The Sadako Story !!!

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes 
(musical audio recording)
AUTHOR Pumpian, Michiko I.
PUBLISHER Dream Come Through Productions
SUMMARY Original song by Michiko about the story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. A beautiful song sung in both Japanese and English with a message of peace for the world.

Birds of Peace
AUTHOR Enloe, Walter
PUBLISHER Whitewing Press
ISBN# 0-9639519-5-5
SUMMARY Excellent book on the Sadako story and using it to build a better community and a peaceful world. Highly recommended with projects for students to participate in. Good for the classroom.

Children of the Paper Crane

AUTHOR Nasu, Masamoto
PUBLISHER Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1991
ISBN# 0873327152 (cloth) :
SUMMARY The story of Sadako Sasaki and her struggle with the A-bomb disease. The most detailed book we've found yet in English. This book is an excellent reference as well.

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (book)

AUTHOR Coerr, Eleanor
PUBLISHER New York : Dell Pub. Co., c1977
SUMMARY Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy


for info on how to order the Video

To Order this Video:  Please call: 800 827-0949 or write to: 
The Sadako Project, Informed Democracy P.O. Box 67 Santa Cruz, CA 95063 Or email: garden@sadako.com

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes [video recording]

PRODUCER Informed Democracy and the Better World Society ; 
directed by George Levenson.
PUBLISHER Informed Democracy, c1990
ISBN# 1879368005
SUMMARY Liv Ullman tells the true story of a young Japanese girl hospitalized with the atom bomb disease, leukemia, who races against time to fold one thousand cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Children of the A-bomb

AUTHOR Osada, Arata
AVAILABLE
FROM
U.S. Japan Business Service, Inc.
25 West 43rd ST. #910 NY., NY. 10036 212-704-9960 FAX 212-944-2163.
SUMMARY The story and testament of 105 boys and girls of Hiroshima. This is an excellent book to introduce children to the story of the Hiroshima Bomb. Great for ages 8 and above.

One Thousand Paper Cranes
subtitled "The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue"

This is an excellent book for middle school age readers, and is very inexpensive at $4.99 list price.

AUTHOR

 Ishii, Takayuki

AVAILABLE
FROM

Copyright 1997, and published by Dell Laurel-Leaf,
an imprint of Random House Children's books.

SUMMARY

Takayuki Ishii's book is factual and based on personal interviews with Sadako Sasaki's family, classmates, and hospital roommate.
It seems to be a good counterbalance to the more fictional approach of Eleanor Coerr's books.


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