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Hiroshima No Pika

1981, Toshi Maruki

4.6/5

I started out reading this book for my children's lit class at PSU. What first drew me to this book was the fact that it was about Hiroshima, and me being half japanese, I wanted to see what they wrote down. I mean other than japanese, japanese americans, and history enthusiast who knows a lot about what actually happened that day in Japan? I know a few people could tell me the name of the bomb that hit, and what day, but how did those people feel? what actually happened to these people?It is an amazing well written book from a point of view of a 7 year old japanese girl. She started out her boring like any other morning when the bomb hit. It goes into some graphic stuff, which would be hard for me if I had children to show, but as a human I feel like we should see what we are capable of and what we do has effect on others. The pictures are beyond moving, and at one moment in time i felt like shutting the book entirely and no longer reading it. But it shows exactly what happened that day and the cause and effect it had on these people.I would suggest any person to read this, young or old, and to never forget what we did that day.
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