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Sadako and the thousand paper cranes  Cover Image Book Book

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler.

Coerr, Eleanor. (Author). Himler, Ronald. (Added Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780399237997 :
  • ISBN: 0399237992 :
  • Physical Description: 80 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Putnam, [2002], c1977.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes a section on "How to fold a paper crane."
"This new edition contains instructions for folding paper cranes and a biographical note with details about the writing of this book"--Front flap of jacket.
Formatted Contents Note:
Good luck signs -- Peace Day -- Sadako's secret -- Secret no longer -- Golden Crane -- Kenji -- Hundreds of wishes -- Last days -- Racing with the wind.
Subject: 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.

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