Sadako
By: Eleanor Coerr ; illustrated by Ed Young.
Contributors: Young, Ed, ill.; Coerr, Eleanor.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature; Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955; Leukemia in children -- Juvenile literature; Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature; Leukemia; Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect; Death; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945
Other titles: Sadako and the thousand paper cranes.
Description: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Sadako and the thousand paper cranes. c1977.
"Inspired by Sadako and the thousand paper cranes"--T.p. verso.