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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Amelia's Book Room: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes


This book by Eleanor Coerr is based on the story of a real girl, Sadako Sasaki. Sadako lived in Japan from 1943 to 1955. In the aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, she died of radiation, ten years after the bomb was dropped.

This is a sad and amazing story. Sadako strove to make a thousand paper origami cranes, hoping that the gods would make her better. The book has information about Peace Day, when people place thousands of paper cranes under the statue of Sadako in Hiroshima. It also has a guide on making your own crane.

I had the chance to meet Mrs. Coerr, and get my copy of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes signed. She is a very nice woman, with a great interest in Sadako’s history.

The book is all about surviving, and even though Sadako didn’t, it is truly a very hopeful and inspiring biography.

In other notes, I had my Nutcracker performance this past weekend; here is a picture of the garlands in the Waltz of the Flowers; I'm the second from the right!

It was very fun; we had the pleasure of working with newscaster Hunter Finnell, who played Mother Ginger. We also had two guest performers, Gary Franco, as Nutcracker and Arabian, and Zuri Goldman, the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavelier. My mom worked on a lot of the costumes, including Zuri's tunic, the trim on the Sugar Plum Fairy's tutu, the soldier doll costumes, and shorts and hats for the bakers.

One of the parents took over a thousand pictures, which you can look at here. It was a great experience, and I think it looked great! I'll leave you with another photo, me in the middle.

4 comments:

Posh said...

Thanks Amelia for sharing those pictures. You look beautiful!!! How did it go for you? If you have more pictures and want to share with us, send them to our email and with your permission we will have the dekoposh Team post them to our photo album on dekoposh.com.

G2G...Posh

Amelia said...

Thanks, Posh! It went really good; it was my second year doing it, and in a much bigger theater this year, and it was amazing hearing so many people (around 700 seats) applaud us!
I'll be sure to look through the tons of pictures and pick out some more to email. I'll try to find some of me in my soldier costume, too!

Green4Kids said...

How exciting for you. You look amazing. I hope you had a blast. You know we are from California, so next year let us know early and we would love to come see you in person. Great book review.

Dina

Deko said...

Way to go Amelia. I have never seen the Nutcracker. I am thinking I need to see this ballet. All of you look like you are having a great time.

L8R...Deko