Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Author: Eleanor Coerr
Illustrator: Ronald Himler
Original language: English
Published: september 1987
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group U.S.
ISBN13: 9780698118027
Price: € 7.99 (paperback)
Age: 12 years and up
Sadoko and the Thousand Paper Cranes is a true, moving story about a brave Japanese girl. Sadoko is a good student and also the star of her school running team.
If she becomes seriously ill, it soon turns out that it is leukemia, the disease that many people have died of in the years after the bombing of Hiroshima. Sadoko was a baby when in august 1945, in the war of the USA, a nuclear bomb was dropped on Japan.
The book describes Sadoko's struggle against the horrible disease and her belief in a legend that will make her healthy again. We read about the indescribable grief of the parents, family and friends of this child and why there must never be a nuclear bomb in the world again.
3 sparkling radiant stars for Sadoko and the Thousand Paper Cranes, from all the snazzie readers!