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: 9780399217715
• Author: Coerr, Eleanor
• Illustrators: Young, Ed; Young, Ed
• Published: 2002 , GP Putnam And Sons
• Themes: Death, Illness and disease, Origami
• Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Japan, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)
• No. of pages: 48