Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
- Eleanor Coerr
- Hachette
- 1/12/2002
- ISBN: 9780733617324
RRP: $12.99 (Inc. GST)
Description
Twelve-year-old Sadako Sasaki was the lively star of her school s running team when the dizzy spells started. Soon gravely ill with leukaemia, 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 on thousand cranes, the gods will grand her wish and make her healthy again.