[AISLE-Share] Question about the book Sachiko

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AWESOME!  Thank you so much!  I'll pass it on :)

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Email list for the Association of Illinois
School Library Educators <aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> *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
>>
>> Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library.
>> The only entrance
>>  requirement is interest. - Lady Bird Johnson
>>
>>
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-- 
Renee Welch
Bednarcik Junior High <https://www.sd308.org/domain/965>
LRC Director

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library.
The only entrance
 requirement is interest. - Lady Bird Johnson

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