The theme for this year’s Summer Reading Program is, One World, Many Stories. Our interactive project this year is based on the story of Sadako, and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Sadako was a girl who survivied the atom bomb at the end of World War II. Due to radiation exposure, she developed lukemia when she was in the sixth grade. She believed that if she made 1,000 paper cranes, she would be cured. For more information about Sadako and her story, follow this link. You could also read the book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr.
This summer, when you get your Summer Reading Program account activated, you can put your name on a paper crane here at the library.
We are asking everyone to help us get 1,000 paper cranes made by the end of July. You can find instructions on how to make paper cranes here: paper crane 1, paper crane 2, paper crane 3. If you need help, come in and we will try to show you how. Please use scrap paper for your cranes, thin paper works best. You can paint or color your cranes, if you wish. Maybe you would like to write a poem on the paper before you fold it into a crane.
When we get 1,000 paper cranes, we will send them to the Children’s Peace Monument in Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan. We hope that you will want to make some paper cranes and donate them to the library’s project .We will hang the paper cranes in the Children’s Department in June and July, while we are working towards 1,000. If you have a message for peace you would like included, bring it to the library or email it to tleonard@eldoks.com . Be sure to have “peace message” in the subject line.
If you want to learn more origami, or watch video instructions, try this webpage
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