Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
By: by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler.
Contributors: Himler, Ronald.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Sasaki, Sadako, -- 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature.; Leukemia in children -- Juvenile literature.; Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature.; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
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: Includes a section on "How to fold a paper crane."
Table of contents: title: Good luck signs; title: Peace Day; title: Sadako's secret; title: A secret no longer; title: The Golden Crane; title: Kenji; title: Hundreds of wishes; title: Last days; title: Racing with the wind.