Sadako and the thousand paper cranes /
by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler.
- New York : Putnam, 1977.
- 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.
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Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955.
Leukemia. Atomic bomb--Physiological effect. World War II