A beautiful book of hope and love at time’s of such loss and sadness
This book is really something special. The writer uses the phrase “there is magic in books” within this story, and in this case that really is true. I read this book very quickly, and throughout I had a sense of sadness, but also with it a pull at me wanting to keep hope too!
The main part of the book is told from the viewpoint of a survivor of Hiroshima. As I followed the story I felt myself feeling great sadness of all he had to go through to survive and how even in his great suffering of physical pain it was the emotional burden of the promises he had made the kept pushing him to survive. To continue to push on for help.
The way this book is wrote is nothing less than beautiful, it’s an easy and quick read, but this only helps to keep you in the emotions that this book has you feeling in the pit of your stomach, encouraging page after page to be turned. The illustrations in the book are a work of art, and to be thoroughly enjoyed.
I don’t often read books if this genre, and if I do I certainly don’t find myself thinking it’s a book I’d read again, but this one will remain on my book shelf and I hope I enjoy it as much when I read it again, enjoying the magic in this book all over again!
The main part of the book is told from the viewpoint of a survivor of Hiroshima. As I followed the story I felt myself feeling great sadness of all he had to go through to survive and how even in his great suffering of physical pain it was the emotional burden of the promises he had made the kept pushing him to survive. To continue to push on for help.
The way this book is wrote is nothing less than beautiful, it’s an easy and quick read, but this only helps to keep you in the emotions that this book has you feeling in the pit of your stomach, encouraging page after page to be turned. The illustrations in the book are a work of art, and to be thoroughly enjoyed.
I don’t often read books if this genre, and if I do I certainly don’t find myself thinking it’s a book I’d read again, but this one will remain on my book shelf and I hope I enjoy it as much when I read it again, enjoying the magic in this book all over again!