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Running with Cosmos Flowers: The Children of Hiroshima
By MANALE, Shizumi Shigeto & Richard Marshall
- ISBN
- 9781455619665 9781455619672
- Publisher
- Pelican
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2015 | Grades 5-8
Gr 6 Up—A survivor looks back at the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in this harrowing story of heartbreak and survival. Hanako, an elderly woman who lived through the bombing as a child, recounts her memories when she is unexpectedly confronted with the sight of a childhood drawing she created in the wake of World War II. Though Hanako's story is fiction, it feels very much like memoir. Based on survivor accounts, the dropping of the bomb and its aftermath are relayed in intense detail, a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2014
An old woman remembers her experiences--both horrific and hopeful--as a seven-year-old child who survived the bombing of Hiroshima. Hanako...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
