Coerr, Eleanor.

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler. - New York : Putnam, c1977. - 64 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0399205209. 0399610103

LCCN: 76009872 /AC/r883

Subjects--Personal Names:
Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 --Juvenile literature.
Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Leukemia in children--Juvenile literature.
Atomic bomb--Physiological effect--Juvenile literature.
Leukemia.
Atomic bomb--Physiological effect.
Death.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Juvenile literature.--Bombardment, 1945
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.

LC Class. No.: RJ416.L4 / C63

Dewey Class. No.: 362.7/8/19615509 B