Name: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
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Author: Eleanor Coerr
ISBN: 9780698118027

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Eleanor Coerr

Illustrated by

Ronald Himler

Publisher

Puffin Books

Year

1987

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.2 x 12.9 x 0.5 cm

Weight

0.07 kg.

ISBN

0698118022

ISBN13

9780698118027

Edition No.

Synopsis "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes "

Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then 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.

Eleanor Coerr

(Author)

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Eleanor Coerr (Kamsack, 1922 - New York, 2010) was a Canadian children's book writer. She began her professional career as a journalistic reporter and editor. She taught children's literature at Monterey Peninsula College and creative writing at Chapman College in California. Among other works, she published the novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, which tells the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl from Hiroshima who died of leukemia caused by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

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