HomeGroupsTalkMoreZeitgeist
Search Site
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Results from Google Books

Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.

Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor…
Loading...

Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes (original 1977; edition 1979)

by Eleanor Coerr

MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingMentions
4,886982,254 (3.93)50
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
Member:mmuncy
Title:Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes
Authors:Eleanor Coerr
Info:Yearling (1979), Paperback, 64 pages
Collections:Your library
Rating:*****
Tags:None

Work Information

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr (1977)

Loading...

Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 50 mentions

English (95)  French (2)  Spanish (1)  All languages (98)
Showing 1-5 of 95 (next | show all)
Star and a half I guess. For whatever reason, I whipped through this thing, and not in a "this is so good that I can't put this down" way. I think I read it and was waiting for big, emotional moments and details to emerge that did not. Part of that is probably that I didn't read this book until now, until adulthood. I experienced it differently than someone who has read this as a kid would. It's written in such a way that I didn't feel there was any buildup, and there was no foreshadowing, but rather the book spoiled itself over and over again. I was annoyed and wondered at times, "So why keep reading? Idk, it's short and I'll keep going." The afterward, from the book, after the epilogue, is a solid ten ebook pages of warbling about the author herself and then twenty ebook pages of kids writing letters to her about their loved ones with cancer. I didn't mind the kids letters. They were sad and belonged. I was glad they were there. But for the ten pages of warbling about the author--why? I got bored reading about what I interpreted as bragging about her writing career.

This is only semi-related but: there's another white woman who wrote about Japanese culture. Wildly different because hers is YA historical fantasy, not a creative retelling of true events. The historical fantasy is "Little Sister" by Kara Dalkey and suuuuper different than this. She doesn't include acknowledgments at the back of the book. She talks about how she wrote about real people and real folklore, and provides a history lesson. She notes which books she read and research she did that helped her write the book. Here, this book...why did this author write about a Japanese girl who died in the forty's, and write the book in the late seventy's? Why was it significant to her? I was too bored and found the yammering too off-putting to read though.
I expected far, far more from this book than I actually got, especially since this book has stood the test of time and is taught in children's literature classes. ( )
  iszevthere | Mar 1, 2024 |
A short, easy to read novella aimed at the elementary school child, which tells the true, and extremely sad story, of Sadako Sasaki, a child in Hiroshima who was a baby when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Full of life and happiness, she gets leukemia from the radiation she was exposed to. This tells the gut-wrenching story from when she first starts showing signs of illness, to her inevitable death. ( )
  fingerpost | Jul 1, 2023 |
This is the story of eleven-year-old Sadoko, a Japanese girl who had been exposed to the atomic bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima, the city in which she lived when she was a young child. She survived that catastrophe but later went on to develop leukemia after having been exposed to the radiation of the bomb. The story starts with Sadoko being a healthy child who especially loved racing. As she became sick, the story told about her hospitalization and her realization that her disease was both painful and lethal. She tried to fight her disease by being optimistic and creating paper cranes with the hope that, if she were to make one thousand paper cranes, her wish to live would come true. That is not what happened.

Sadako's story is deeply emotional and beautifully told. It's a plea for friendship and peace. It ends with a telling of how this book came to be written as well as giving detailed instructions with diagrams for how to make a paper crane. ( )
  SqueakyChu | Feb 10, 2023 |
Story of a young girl dying of cancer due to dropping the atomic bomb. ( )
  autumnesf | Feb 5, 2023 |
Showing 1-5 of 95 (next | show all)
no reviews | add a review

» Add other authors (4 possible)

Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Eleanor Coerrprimary authorall editionscalculated
Daniau, MarcIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
DANIAU, MarcIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Fraisse, FrédériqueTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
FRAISSE, FrédériqueTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Himler, RonaldIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
HIMLER, RonaldIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mlawer, TeresaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
MLAWER, TeresaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
MOORE, ChristinaNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Moore, ChristinaNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Yamaguchi, MarianneIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
YAMAGUCHI, MarianneIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Canonical title
Original title
Alternative titles
Original publication date
People/Characters
Important places
Important events
Related movies
Epigraph
Dedication
For Laura, who remembered Sadako
First words
That afternoon Chizuko was Sadako's first visitor.
Sadako was born to be a runner.
Quotations
Don't you remember that old story about the crane? Chizuko asked. It's supposed to live for a thousand years. If a sick person folds one thousand paper cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again.
Last words
Disambiguation notice
Publisher's editors
Blurbers
Original language
Canonical DDC/MDS
Canonical LCC

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English (2)

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

No library descriptions found.

Book description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
Haiku summary

Current Discussions

None

Popular covers

Quick Links

Rating

Average: (3.93)
0.5 3
1 5
1.5 2
2 19
2.5 2
3 72
3.5 17
4 127
4.5 18
5 117

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

Recorded Books

An edition of this book was published by Recorded Books.

» Publisher information page

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 203,242,880 books! | Top bar: Always visible