Given the necessary length of the text, the mature subject matter and the sophisticated artwork, this book may find its most welcoming audience among older readers, especially those who enjoyed its original version as a novel. Coerr's condensed text succeeds in retaining the simple lyricism of the original, allowing the leukemia-stricken Sadako to emerge as a quietly courageous girl. Sweeping panoramas alternate with wispy image fragments against ample white space: a face half-concealed, a shadow darting past.
His ethereal pastels (reminiscent of his art in The Red Thread ) seem to convey the mood, rather than the actual activity, of the text. Using a sampling of the illustrations he created for the movie version, Young ( Seven Blind Mice ) subtly accentuates the poignancy of the story without rendering it sentimental. (Apr.An abridgement of the novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes combined with images from a film adaptation of the work yields a complex and somewhat abstract picture book. Once again, this author has created a vivid portrait of courage, drawn from a time that deserves to be remembered. (Hisako's disappearance from the story proves mildly confusing, leaving her more of a device than a fleshed-out character.) Overall, this is a sensitively and beautifully crafted story that juxtaposes the strength of Japanese art and philosophy with the complex emotional wake of the bombing. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics) Eleanor Coerr Penguin, Juvenile Fiction - 80 pages 41 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and. Mieko's recovery is further aided by Yoshi's Aunt Hisako, a stern but generous woman who goads Mieko into picking up her brushes once more. Eventually, she is lifted from her dark state by the patience and wisdom of her comforting grandparents and through the friendship of Yoshi, a gentle classmate. The story of 12-year-old Sadako Sasakis brave struggle against leukemia was first told in Coerrs classic story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. At her new school, she is taunted by some cruel classmates, and the anger she feels only deepens her sense of misery and loss. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified.
Mieko fears she has lost the fifth treasure, the ``beauty in the heart'' which holds the key to her artwork. 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. After her hand is badly injured in the bombing, the frightened and embittered girl is sent to stay with her grandparents in the country. The devastating effects of the bombing of Japan described in Coerr's Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes are evoked here in the stirring story of Mieko, a gifted calligrapher and artist.
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