Sadako and the thousand paper cranes [Paperback]

“An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable.” —Booklist, starred review

Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic—the star of her school's running team . . . until the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the atom bomb disease, Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery.

Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For the legend holds that if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again.

Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the extraordinary courage that made one young woman a heroine in Japan. This an extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable. -Booklist, starred review

The story speaks directly to young readers of the tragedy of Sadako's death and, in its simplicity, makes a universal statement for 'peace in the world.' -The Horn Book

The story is told tenderly but with neither a morbid nor a sentimental tone: it is direct and touching. —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Eleanor Coerr was born in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada, and grew up in Saskatoon. Two of her favorite childhood hobbies were reading and making up stories. Eleanor began her professional life as a newspaper reporter and editor of a column for children. Luckily, she traveled to Japan in 1949 as a writer for the Ottawa Journal, since none of the other staff wanted to go to a country that had been devastated by war. Coerr is the writer of numerous children's book and picture books.

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