Eleanor Coerr, author
Ed Young, illustrator
Publisher: Paperback: Puffin Books; Illustrated Edition (September 22, 1997)
ISBN: 978-0698115880
Coerr’s classic novel is converted to a picture book by the Caldecott Medalist Ed Young, who uses haunting pastels to tell the story of a Japanese girl who succumbs to leukemia (the “atomic bomb disease”) ten years after the bomb fell on Hiroshima.