Good Reading. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:58 pm

That. Book. Is. Awsome.

We are currently reading this book in class (I'm in Grade 5 for all 'yall who forgot). We are on Chapter 5, Kenji, but I skipped ahead and read more. The last page's three last words were SO SAD.

"She never woke".

The Chapters were:

1. Good Luck Signs
2. Peace Day
3. Sadako's Secret
4. A Secret No Longer
5. The Golden Crane
6. Kenji
7. Hundred's of Wishes
8. Last Days
9. Racing With The Wind
EPILOUGE (READ LAST)

If anyone has read this, discuss, if you haven't you are missing alot.

Discuss.

Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:14 am

Oooh, I read this a few years ago. It's a really touching story..

Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:43 am

I read this, it was good^__^ I liked it^^* sad though

Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:33 pm

it was a fantastice book, school had the illustrated watercolor version, and i recommend that, illustrations really help to tell a story

it was really sad, and really moving, i admit i cried a bit when i first read it,

it motivated me, as we always have japanese exchange students are our school to do something, and so we now have a display in the library, and i made the 1000 cranes *shudder* i still have 850 or so, the rest got given away to friends after the first display, and i'm considering donating the rest to the library, but then it was such an effort, i'm not sure

Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:57 am

Our class worked HARD last month and we mde it to a grand total of: 26,000 paper cranes. We donated them all over the school.

I have tro admitit, I also cried, when I read it.

Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:49 am

Oh my gosh; I remember reading that book in the 4th or 5th grade.... It was so sad. Our class of 30 kids only made a few hundred cranes though.

Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:34 am

I read it... ::thinks:: when I had the chicken pox...so...second grade? Would that be right?

It was a nice story, but I never loved it. Then again, I wasn't crazy about anything I read when I had the chicken pox, it was just that or homework. =P

Website · Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:51 am

I read it, did a play on it(did have some "black comedy"), and love the story.

*Thwaks town*BUT ITS ALL YOUR FAULT! YOU BIG MEANIE-TOWN!!

Umm...yeah, I like in the stomic city. They refused to put the statue of Sadako here, so they had to put in Santa Fe. Isn't that mean!

Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:40 am

I remember reading it a few years ago and I was so sad afterwards. At the time, I think I thought it was beautifully written. Now I don't know if I'd think the same, but the story is beautiful anyway.

Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:05 pm

O to be forced to recall Kindergarden when your a Jr. in College. I enjoyed the book and remember it inspired within me to never give up hope.*Sends out a ton of paper cranes(Yes I know how to make them)* 0:)

Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:44 pm

I read it a LONG time ago. It was so sad. I think I'm going to check out that book again, I love it.

Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:45 pm

I read it in 4th grade (5th grade here also)

Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:44 am

well that takes me back. twas manny moons ago when i read that book, on rememberance day in the sixth grade. we didnt do aney thing else that day, out teacher just sat and read the whole thing to us, it was realy beautiful, then we all made paper cranes for her. i was adicted to that book for weeks after, i guess i'm just a glutten for tragety

Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:48 am

Well, I automatically cried and hid my face today when our teacher re-read the whole book today.

Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:44 am

I read it in 3rd grade. It was really touching. I reread it again a year or two ago just in my free time.

My 3rd grade teacher didn't let us make any cranes, while all the other 3rd grade classes did. So we hated her for a while. In protest, we made a few hundred cranes during a few recesses, then threw them around the room one morning. XD