Sadako and the thousand paper cranes /
by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler.
- New York : Scholastic, 2000.
- 79 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1977.
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.