Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
By: by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler.
Contributors: Himler, Ronald.
Publisher: Putnam; Putnam Juvenile
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
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 -- Juvenile literature.; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
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.