Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Infobox Book
name = Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
title_orig = サダコと千羽鶴
translator =


image_caption = Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
author = Eleanor Coerr
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
series =
subject =
genre = Children's non-fiction literature
publisher = G. P. Putnam's Sons
release_date = 1977
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 80
isbn =
preceded_by =
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"Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" is a non-fiction children's book written by American author Eleanor Coerr and published in 1977.

The story is of a Japanese girl, Sadako Sasaki, who lived in Hiroshima at the time of the atomic bombing. She developed leukemia from the radiation and spent her time in a nursing home folding paper cranes in hope of making a thousand, which supposedly would have allowed her to make one wish, which was to live, or so she thought.

The book has been translated to many languages and published in many places, to be used for peace education programs in primary schools.

See also

* Sadako Sasakishe was born in 1943 to 1955
* Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
* Thousand origami cranes
* Children's Peace Monument
* "The Day of the Bomb" - 1961

External links

* [http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/sadako/index.html Sadako and the thousand paper cranes]

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