Eleanor Coerr (1922–2010)
Autor(a) de Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
About the Author
Eleanor Coerr was born in 1922 in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada. Before becoming a children's book author, she was a newspaper reporter, an editor of a column for children, and taught children's literature at Monterey Peninsula College and creative writing at Chapman College in California. Her mostrar mais works include Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Mieko and the Fifth Treasure, Sadako, and The Big Balloon Race. She died on November 22, 2010 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Eleanor Coerr
The Big Balloon Race[BIG BALLOON RACE][Paperback] 13 exemplares
Why Can't You Unscramble an Egg? 1 exemplar
Mieko and the Fifth Treasure 1 exemplar
sadako ve kağıttan bin turna kuşu 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes [1991 film] — Original book — 7 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- COERR, Eleanor
- Data de nascimento
- 1922-05-29
- Data de falecimento
- 2010-11-22
- Localização do túmulo
- Cremated
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Canadian
- País (no mapa)
- Canada
- Local de nascimento
- Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Locais de residência
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 27
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 10,481
- Popularidade
- #2,270
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 147
- ISBN
- 211
- Línguas
- 9
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
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.… (mais)