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.

 

• ISBN: 9780698115880
• Author: Coerr, Eleanor
• Illustrator: Young, Ed
• Published: 1997 , Putnam Juvenile
• Themes: Death, Origami, sickness, War, wish, World War II
• Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Japan, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)
• No. of pages: 48