**Winner of the 2017 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award
** **Winner of the 2015 Gelett Burgess Award for Best Intercultural
Book** **Winner of the 2015 Silver Evergreen Medal for World
Peace** This true children's story is told by a little bonsai tree,
called Miyajima, that lived with the same family in the Japanese
city of Hiroshima for more than 300 years before being donated to
the National Arboretum in Washington DC in 1976 as a gesture of
friendship between America and Japan to celebrate the American
Bicentennial. From the Book: "In 1625, when Japan was a land of
samurai and castles, I was a tiny pine seedling. A man called Itaro
Yamaki picked me from the forest where I grew and took me home with
him. For more than three hundred years, generations of the Yamaki
family trimmed and pruned me into a beautiful bonsai tree. In 1945,
our household survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In 1976, I
was donated to the National Arboretum in Washington D.C., where I
still live today--the oldest and perhaps the wisest tree in the
bonsai museum."
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