num_pages: 120
description: Making a strand of one thousand origami cranes has become an international movement for peace happiness and health. This book is an update of the Heian classic with new photographs and projects plus forty-eight tear-out sheets of colorful chiyogami to get you started. Included is the story of Sadako in Hiroshima and suggestions for how cranes can be used at schools and hospitals as wedding gifts and by people everywhere to demonstrate their commitment to world peace. Florence Temko was an internationally known writer on paper crafts and folk arts. Her more than forty books have sold over 2.5 million copies.
language: English
title: A Thousand Cranes: Origami Projects for Peace and Happiness
publisher: Heian