Author: Molly Bang
Photographer: Ned Manter
Published in 1985
There once was a restaurant sitting on the busiest street in the town. Customers through all mornings and nights until the highway was built. All of sudden, business is dead. Molly Bang writes a story about how a simple paper crane can bring so much life to this once deserted restaurant and see an explosion of business. The illustrations create a 3D visual of paper cut outs photographed by Ned Manter to create the realistic approach for readers. The text is simple to read and the pages are filled with images of the story. Any student in an elementary would enjoy this text as a read aloud with Kindergartners to a pair reading with second graders. A neat activity would have student to do an origami activity in which students create their own animals and writes stories of how this animal fixed a problem in life. Students can then display their animal and read their stories aloud to their classmates.
Having lived in Japan I am interested in origami and I know that many of my students are as well. They would enjoy this book as it involves paper-folding. You mentioned that this would be good for elementary school. I read a book that I purchased at the Muhammed Ali Center titled, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr. It also had to do with folding paper cranes but is geared more for middle school children. It is based on a true story about the bombing of Hiroshima and the children that suffered and died due to radiation poisoning.
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