This miracle story must be shared! Not only did Grandmother's bowl survive the bombing of Nagasaki but Sachiko survived the death of her entire family to tell her story with hope for peace. Grandmother's bowl brought the family together for meals and now it can bring others together with its story. The author's note and Illustrator's insight provided a powerful conclusion for why this story had to be told.

A Bowl Full of Peace is the beautiful and heart-wrenching story of Sachiko Yasuo, who was six years old when she survived the bombing of Nagasaki. Her family always gathered around her grandmother's bowl and gratefully ate their meals while saying, "Itadakimasu," (humbly receive). The bowl miraculously also survived the bombing unscathed. I loved the simply and poetically told story, but I challenge any adult reader to read this moving story without crying or tearing up. An important message of peace in troubling times.

I have a shelf in my personal library, a shelf of about war, where I have about five or six books about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The most moving ones are the ones written by people who were actually there.

Many of the people who were there, have since died off, so I was surprised to find a new book about a new experience of the bombing.

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This is a very moving, straight forward telling of what happened when the bomb dropped and slowly, one by one, took everyone in a little girls family, until she was the only one that remained. Her, and her grandmother's bowl, which had somehow survived the bombing, without being damaged.

To her, it was a symbol of peace, and she chose to show it to school children and tell about what it was like.

Sweet, simple picture book. The stories are stark, but then so was life after the bombing.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.