The peace tree from Hiroshima : the little bonsai with a big story /

Moore, Sandra,

The peace tree from Hiroshima : the little bonsai with a big story / Little bonsai with a big story Sandra Moore ; illustrations by Kazumi Wilds. - 31 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.

Publisher's Weekly, May 2015

A nearly four hundred-year-old Japanese white pine bonsai tree tells the story of its life, from its birth on the island of Miyajima through generations of love and training by the men of the Yamaki family in Hiroshima, Japan, to its current location in the United States National Arboretum, a gift to the United States from Japan and the Yamaki family. Based on a true story.

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National Arboretum (U.S.)--Juvenile fiction.
National Arboretum (U.S.)--Fiction.


Bonsai--Juvenile fiction.
Bonsai--Fiction.


United States--Foreign relations--Japan--Juvenile fiction.
Japan--Foreign relations--United States--Juvenile fiction.
United States--Foreign relations--Japan--Fiction.
Japan--Foreign relations--United States--Fiction.

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