[AISLE-Share] Question about the book Sachiko

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*Hi everybody - *

*I reached out to my colleagues from the 2017 Sibert committee, and this
was the response: *

On page 116 of the "Author's Note" in the second to last paragraph is the
explanation.

Caren Stelson writes,
"During that visit I met a women named Etsuko, Sachiko's youngest sister. I
also met Etsuko's young granddaughter Kanon. I had no idea Sachiko had a
surviving sister. Etsuko had been born after the war and not xperienced the
horrors of the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945. Sachiko and Etsuko had a
pact that Sachiko's story would focus only on the family members who had
experienced the atomic bomb."

*I hope this helps clear things up for your student.*

*Thanks,*
*Elisa*





On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:16 AM Email list for the Association of Illinois
School Library Educators <aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I have a student who noticed something in the back of the book's family
> tree picture.  She asks, "At the back of the book there is Sachiko's
> family tree, it has all of her siblings and this one other sibling who was
> never talked about and was born after her baby brother Toshi. Her random
> sister Etsuko was born (born in 1948) after the bomb hit and is supposedly
> alive today. In the story it even says Sachiko is the only one in her
> family alive, which on page 106 it states that,"With Mother's death,
> Sachiko became her family's only witness to tell their story." The family
> tree says Sachiko and Etsuko are still alive, so do you know where this
> random sister came from?
>
> --
> Renee Welch
> Bednarcik Junior High <https://www.sd308.org/domain/965>
> LRC Director
>
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