Synopses & Reviews
A beautifully illustrated true story of another family's experience of the bombing of Hiroshima. Shin's uncle is able to get him the impossible: the tricycle he desperately wants. He is riding the wonderful, brand-new tricycle when the atom bomb is dropped. Shin is found in the rubble, holding on to his treasure. He dies later that day, ten days before his fourth birthday. The tricycle now sits in the Peace Museum in Hiroshima.
Synopsis
-- Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, 1995
-- "Fifty years later, it is still hard to tell children the story of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima. This restrained and heartfelt picture book can help adults begin that task". -- KR (pointer).
-- "The paintings are powerful, almost super-real at times, as a father remembers his child at play". -- BL (starred).