Moira Miller (1941–1990)
Autor(a) de Oscar Mouse Finds a Home
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1941-01
- Data de falecimento
- 1990-04
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Clydebank, Scotland, UK
- Causa da morte
- Road accident
- Pequena biografia
- Moira Miller was born in Clydebank near Glasgow in January 1941 and grew up in the seaside town of Ayr. Moving to Glasgow, an administrative job with the BBC led to her having short stories broadcast on radio which she then expanded to create her first books. Over the next decade she had a successful and prolific publishing career while visiting schools and libraries throughout Scotland spreading her passion for reading and story telling to a new generation. She died in a road accident in April 1990; her stories did not.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 18
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 175
- Popularidade
- #122,547
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Resenhas
- 9
- ISBNs
- 48
- Idiomas
- 1
Published in 1989, The Moon Dragon is the seventh book I have read from Miller, and the second, after The Proverbial Mouse, that also features artwork from Deuchar. Apparently the two also collaborated on a third picture-book, The Search for Spring, which I have not yet managed to track down. In any case, I found the story here engaging, appreciating its very clear message about the dangers of boasting, rather than working hard. The artwork is lovely, with a vividly colorful palette and expressive human figures. The Library of Congress information on the colophon here lists this as a Chinese folktale, but there is no other information provided about source material, which I find disappointing. Unless personally familiar with the story, I never know in these cases if the tale in question is actually a folktale, or an original creation of the author. Leaving that critique aside, this is one I would recommend to fairy-tale lovers, and to anyone looking for children's stories about the dangers of boasting.… (mais)