Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
$11.70
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2002
Summary
Twelve-year-old Sadako Sasaki was the lively star of her school’s running team when the dizzy spells started. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, an after-effect of the atom bomb that fell on her city when she was two years old, Sadako approached her illness as she did her running - with irrepressible spirit.
Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako set 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733617324 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0733617328 |
| Author: | Eleanor Coerr |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Lothian Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2002 |
| Weight: | 70g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 5mm |
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About The Author
Eleanor Coerr
Eleanor Coerr lived in Japan for several years and heard about Sadako and the thousand paper cranes from young friends in Hiroshima. She decided to write a book about the brave Japanese girl. The author’s friends in both Japan and the United States helped search for more information about the Sasaki family.
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