A Japanese legend holds that if a person who is ill makes a thousand paper cranes, the gods will grant that person's wish to be well again.
In her novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr told the moving story of Sadako and her brave struggle against leukemia, the "atom-bomb disease" which she developed when she was twelve, just ten years after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
The novel became a classic, and when Sadako's story was to be made into a film, Caldecott medalist Ed Young was asked to do the illustrations. With love and commitment, he created nearly three hundred hauntingly beautiful pastels which bring to life the spirit of Sadako, her courage and her strength.
Now a selection of these images and a new text by Eleanor Coerr come together in Sadako, with the hope that Sadako's story will inspire children of all ages.
—from the dust jacket
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