Unfortunately, she is unable to fold 1,000 cranes before her disease takes her life. She wants to live and her child mentality thinks this is the way. So she spends her time in the hospital folding hundreds of cranes while her family helps her hang them. She’s dying but is told that if she is able to fold 1,000 paper origami cranes that the gods may grant her the favor of life. Sadako is a young girl who survived the Hiroshima bombings only to get radiation induced lukemia. There will be spoilers in this review but it’s a very short kids’ book so I think you’ll be okay. I read the English and looked and the pretty Japanese pictures. The English copy I have of the book is illustrated with black and white drawings while the Japanese version has large format color illustrations. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is a children’s book for the 7-10 year range but has a mature enough story that anyone can read and appreciate it. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by author Eleanor Coerr, Illustrations Ronald Himler
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