Follow Toby's journey on social media
  www.writingtotheworld.com
  • Home
  • THE LETTERS
  • Contact
  • About
    • Blog
    • Where Toby lives
    • Fundraising
  • THE BOOK
  • PRESS
  • LETTER NO. 1000

Reading around the world no. 5 - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

13/12/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
Toby says: It was really sad. Sadako was a little girl, and she had to go to the doctors. She had leukaemia from the atom bomb. She was folding a thousand paper cranes so that she could get better again, but she actually died. I liked the book, it was a sad book, though. There is a statue of Sadako in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan.

Mummy says: This was another book that had stayed with me since childhood, and as a result of it, I have been folding paper cranes - out of receipts in restaurants, scraps of paper while we wait somewhere...Toby had been playing with these since he was tiny, and I always told him that I learnt how to fold them because of a book I'd read as a child. What I didn't realise was one important change the author made - when we researched the book, it turned out that Sadako actually managed to fold a thousand paper cranes, but died anyway. In the book, she falls short of her target, and her class mates finish the remaining cranes, so that she gets buried with a thousand paper cranes. 

Of course, we had to have a go at making a paper crane. With a bit of help, this is Toby's first one :)

Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    This blog is mainly a way to keep track of our recipes - for day to day updates, please check out Toby's Facebook page: ​https://www.facebook.com/writingtotheworld

    Archives

    May 2018
    July 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    October 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    January 2015
    September 2014
    August 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013

    Categories

    All
    Africa
    Asia
    Book Bus
    Books
    Craft
    Europe
    Food
    General
    North America
    Oceania
    Recipes
    Responses
    Shelterbox
    South America

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.