Running with Cosmos Flowers: The Children of Hiroshima Hardcover - 2014

From the rear cover

"There's never been a story like this in English. Running with Cosmos Flowers is like a Bible of peace."

--Tomoko Furusawa, survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, former student of Honkawa Elementary School

"Shizumi's dedication and perseverance to sharing this amazing and important story . . . are to be congratulated."

--Myron Belkind, president, National Press Club

"With great sensitivity, delicacy, and authenticity, Shizumi Shigeto Manale and Richard Marshall achieve the near impossible. . . . While powerfully evoking the terrible tragedy that befell the people of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and its painful aftermath, the authors have nonetheless created a beautiful work of hope and reconciliation, with true emotion but devoid of easy sentimentality or platitudes. It is a work that truly honors the epochal events depicted in its pages by confronting both the human race's capacity for unimaginable destruction and, conversely, the miracle of goodness. This is an extraordinary book."

--Michael Singer, author

"This powerful tale of hope, despair, and ultimate triumph, with its remarkable attention to the details of daily life, is a testament to the vitality of the human spirit."

--Peter Kuznick, director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University and coauthor with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States, and Simki Kuznick, award-winning poet

Shizumi Shigeto Manale was born in Hiroshima three years after the end of World War II. She is an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, director, and film producer. Her documentary film, Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard, has been screened at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the Embassy of the United States in Tokyo, and the National Press Club. The former artistic director of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC, Manale has been honored with the County Executive's Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities from Montgomery County, Maryland; the ACE award for excellence in dance and drama; and the President's Volunteer Service Award. Manale lives with her husband in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Richard Marshall's distinguished career has included posts as the former head speechwriter for the Human Rights Bureau and the US delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission; the chief editor for the United States Agency of International Development (USAID); and a reporter covering issues such as United States-Soviet Union relations and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. A four-time recipient of the US Department of State's Meritorious Honor Award, Marshall won the National Association of Government Communicators Blue Pencil Award. He resides with his wife in Silver Spring, Maryland.

From the jacket flap

"There's never been a story like this in English. Running with Cosmos Flowers is like a Bible of peace."

--Tomoko Furusawa, survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima, former student of Honkawa Elementary School

"Shizumi's dedication and perseverance to sharing this amazing and important story . . . are to be congratulated."

--Myron Belkind, president, National Press Club

"With great sensitivity, delicacy, and authenticity, Shizumi Shigeto Manale and Richard Marshall achieve the near impossible. . . . While powerfully evoking the terrible tragedy that befell the people of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and its painful aftermath, the authors have nonetheless created a beautiful work of hope and reconciliation, with true emotion but devoid of easy sentimentality or platitudes. It is a work that truly honors the epochal events depicted in its pages by confronting both the human race's capacity for unimaginable destruction and, conversely, the miracle of goodness. This is an extraordinary book."

--Michael Singer, author

"This powerful tale of hope, despair, and ultimate triumph, with its remarkable attention to the details of daily life, is a testament to the vitality of the human spirit."

--Peter Kuznick, director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University and coauthor with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States, and Simki Kuznick, award-winning poet

Shizumi Shigeto Manale was born in Hiroshima three years after the end of World War II. She is an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, director, and film producer. Her documentary film, Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard, has been screened at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the Embassy of the United States in Tokyo, and the National Press Club. The former artistic director of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC, Manale has been honored with the County Executive's Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities from Montgomery County, Maryland; the ACE award for excellence in dance and drama; and the President's Volunteer Service Award. Manale lives with her husband in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Richard Marshall's distinguished career has included posts as the former head speechwriter for the Human Rights Bureau and the US delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission; the chief editor for the United States Agency of International Development (USAID); and a reporter covering issues such as United States-Soviet Union relations and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. A four-time recipient of the US Department of State's Meritorious Honor Award, Marshall won the National Association of Government Communicators Blue Pencil Award. He resides with his wife in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Citations

• Foreword, 11/26/2014, Page 0
• Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2015, Page 130
• School Library Journal, 01/01/2015, Page 96