Person of the Year for Time Magazine, Sadako Sasaki and the thousand paper cranes. Story written by Eleanor Coerr about Sadako’s life before her death and the peace that followed. The illustration gives the composition a lively and youthful feeling as if Sadako Sasaki and the cranes are coming out of the cover.
Sadako Sasaki's story:
A little girl named Sadako Sasaki was exposed to radiation from the atomic bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima in World War 2. She survived the bomb but was diagnosed with cancer by the age of 12. She decided to fold a thousand cranes hoping that after the thousandth crane, her wish to live will come true. However, she passed away before she could finish (644 cranes). Her classmates continued to finish her cranes and buried her with a wreath of the thousand cranes to honor her dream.
