L'écriture d'Eleanor Coerr se caractérise par une profonde connexion avec la culture japonaise et une grande empathie pour ses sujets. Elle mêle habilement des événements historiques à des histoires humaines intimes, explorant des thèmes de résilience et d'espoir. L'approche de Coerr se distingue par une attention méticuleuse aux détails, donnant vie aux paysages émotionnels de ses personnages. Son œuvre invite les lecteurs à s'engager avec des contextes historiques complexes à travers le prisme de l'expérience personnelle et de l'esprit indéfectible.
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.
Ariel and her mother, a famous 19th-century aeronaut, fly their balloon in a suspense-filled race. A Reading Rainbow Selection
California, here we come!Faith's Pa says there's no room on a wagon train for Josefina, a chicken who's too tough to eat and too old to lay eggs. But Faith loves her pet. Can Josefina show Pa that she still has a few surprises left in her?
Ariel would love to be in the basket of Lucky Star on the day of the big balloon race against Bernard the Brave. Her mother, Carlotta the Great, is the best lady balloonist in America. But Ariel's parents think she is too young. Little do they know she is asleep in the Odds and Ends box when Carlotta the Great orders "Hands off!" and the balloon race begins. The thrills of Ariel's first ride in a hydrogen balloon come to life in this story based on a real ballooning family of the late 1800's. Carolyn Croll's pictures capture the pageantry and drama of the race, and will have readers rooting to the end for Ariel and her mother.
When the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Mieko's nearby village was turned into ruins, and her hand was badly injured. Mieko loves to do calligraphy more than anything, but now she can barely hold a paintbrush. And she feels as if she has lost something that she can't paint without-the legendary fifth treasure, beauty in the heart. Then she is sent to live with her grandparents and must go to a new school. But Mieko is brave and eventually learns that time and patience can help with many things, and may even help her find the fifth treasure.