Perhaps that’s why Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is banned in Florida. More than 100 books have been banned or put under review by school and public libraries in Florida.

She attempted to fold 1,000 cranes, a symbol of peace to bring her health, according to legend. ... creating a home for Sadako and the Thousand Cranes, sculpted by Daryl Smith in 1990.

Sadako is often draped in paper cranes, an homage to the 1,000 cranes she folded before her death in hopes of granting her wish to live.

Despite folding 1,300 cranes, she died eight months later. Sadako’s classmates honored her by fundraising for a monument that still stands tall in Hiroshima’s own Peace Park, adorned with more ...

In hospital, Sadako folded countless cranes with medicine wrapping paper and other materials, believing that her wish for recovery would come true by making 1,000 of them.

Clifton Truman Daniel, 67, grandson of US President Harry S. Truman―who ordered the atomic bombings―began corresponding with Masahiro in 2004 after he read about Sadako and her paper cranes ...

Sadako is often draped in paper cranes, an homage to the 1,000 cranes she folded before her death in hopes of granting her wish to live. The book "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" is read by ...

Perhaps that’s why Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is banned in Florida. More than 100 books have been banned or put under review by school and public libraries in Florida.

Sadako is often draped in paper cranes, an homage to the 1,000 cranes she folded before her death in hopes of granting her wish to live.