Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Coerr, Eleanor
- Used
- Condition
- VG PB
- Seller
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Sebago, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is a non-fiction children's book written by American author Eleanor Coerr and published in 1977. The story is of a girl, Sadako Sasaki, who lived in Hiroshima at the time of the atomic bombing by the United States. She developed leukemia from the radiation and spent her time in a nursing home folding paper cranes in hope of making a thousand, which supposedly would have allowed her to make one wish, which was to live.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crabtree's Collection Old Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS008565I
- Title
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
- Author
- Coerr, Eleanor
- Illustrator
- Paintings by Ronald Himler
- Book Condition
- Used - VG PB
- Publisher
- Dell Yearling
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- (1977)
- Keywords
- Writing on top of front cover. A little girl in the hospital is trying, to fold 1,000 paper cranes so she can be well again., Cranes, Hiroshima, Japan
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