Coerr, Eleanor.

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler. - New York : Dell Pub. Co., 1979, c1977. - 64 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

"A Yearling book." Reprint of the ed. published by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

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: 0440474655

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Leukemia in children
Atomic bomb
Hiroshima