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The Peace Tree from Hiroshima: A Little Bonsai with a Big Story
Sandra Moore
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Description for The Peace Tree from Hiroshima: A Little Bonsai with a Big Story
Hardcover. Num Pages: 32 pages, full-colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: YFY. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 228 x 286 x 11. Weight in Grams: 462.
**Winner of the 2017 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award **
**Winner of the 2015 Gelett Burgess Award for Best Intercultural Book**
**Winner of the 2015 Silver Evergreen Medal for World Peace**
This true children's story is told by a little bonsai tree, called Miyajima, that lived with the same family in the Japanese city of Hiroshima for more than 300 years before being donated to the National Arboretum in Washington DC in 1976 as a gesture of friendship between America and Japan to celebrate the American Bicentennial.
From the Book:
"In 1625, when Japan was ... Read more Show Less
**Winner of the 2017 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award **
**Winner of the 2015 Gelett Burgess Award for Best Intercultural Book**
**Winner of the 2015 Silver Evergreen Medal for World Peace**
This true children's story is told by a little bonsai tree, called Miyajima, that lived with the same family in the Japanese city of Hiroshima for more than 300 years before being donated to the National Arboretum in Washington DC in 1976 as a gesture of friendship between America and Japan to celebrate the American Bicentennial.
From the Book:
"In 1625, when Japan was ... Read more Show Less
Product Details
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
32
Place of Publication
Boston, United States
ISBN
9784805313473
SKU
V9784805313473
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Sandra Moore
Sandra Moore began her writing career as a ghostwriter for a senator on Capitol Hill and has worked as a freelance journalist specializing in writing about children and families. She studied writing for children at the Washington Writers' Center. This is her first book. Kazumi Wilds illustrated Tuttle's All About Japan (Tuttle, 2011) and has illustrated several other ... Read more
Reviews for The Peace Tree from Hiroshima: A Little Bonsai with a Big Story
"This is a story about the art of caring. Its message will speak to the heart of any child who reads it and nourish his or her roots in the process."
Ron Himler, illustrator of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes "…this 350-year-old bonsai had survived the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima! No one in America knew anything about ... Read more
Ron Himler, illustrator of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes "…this 350-year-old bonsai had survived the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima! No one in America knew anything about ... Read more