Bibliograph

Running with cosmos flowers, the children of Hiroshima, Shizumi Shigeto Manale and Richard Marshall

Type

Label

Running with cosmos flowers, the children of Hiroshima, Shizumi Shigeto Manale and Richard Marshall

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Running with cosmos flowers

Responsibility statement

Shizumi Shigeto Manale and Richard Marshall

Sub title

the children of Hiroshima

Summary

After months of seeking family members with the aunt she was visiting when Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, seven-year-old Hanako finally goes back to school and gets on with a life that leads, eventually, to her visiting Washington, D.C. and the church that provided them humanitarian aid. Based on first-hand accounts and interviews with survivors, and illustrated with paintings by Hiroshima children

Target audience

adolescent

Classification