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Sadako and the thousand paper cranes /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coerr, Eleanor
Other Authors: Himler, Ronald (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Putnam, ©1977.
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.
Sasaki, Sadako, > 1943-1955.
Leukemia.
Atomic bomb > Physiological effect.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945.
Death.
Leucémie chez l'enfant > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Bombe atomique > Effets physiologiques > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Hiroshima (Japon) > Histoire > 1945 (Bombardement) > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Leukemia in children.
Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
1945
Biography
collective biographies.
Literature.
Biographies.
History.
Juvenile works.
Historical fiction.
Littérature.
Description
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.
Item Description:Includes a section on "How to fold a paper crane."
The Cushing Library/Basbanes Collection copy is part of the Nicholas A. Basbanes Collection.
Physical Description:80 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Awards:ALA Notable Books for Children, 1994
ISBN:0399237992
9780399237997