Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

by Eleanor Coerr.

Copyright 1977.

"Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic... [but becomes] gravely ill with leukemia, an aftereffect of the atom bomb that fell on her city when she was an infant... 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 courage that made one young woman a heroine in Japan." (from back cover description)

Hardcover in good used condition. Former library copy with library stamps, stickers, and discard markings. Has Perma-bound reinforced library binding.