A Thousand Cranes (Origami Favorites Series)

by Florence Temko

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Making a strand of one thousand origami cranes has become an international movement for peace, happiness, and health. This book is an update of the Heian classic, with new photographs and projects, plus forty-eight tear-out sheets of colorfulchiyogami to get you started. Included is the story of Sadako in Hiroshima and suggestions for how cranes can be used at schools and hospitals, as wedding gifts, and by people everywhere to demonstrate their commitment to world peace. Florence Temko was show more an internationally known writer on paper crafts and folk arts. Her more than forty books have sold over 2.5 million copies. show less

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mcivalleri 67 reviews

This non-fiction title is a "how to" book on the craft of origami...specifically how to fold paper "cranes", and assemble them together. While that is a fun thing to have students do, I was very touched by the story of Sadako, and the memorial to her where people place paper cranes they create. I actually teared up reading that part. So it has different "levels" of interest, and that makes it a good book in my eyes.

Aug 5, 2009

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