The Crow-girl - The Children of Crow Cove

Informationen zum Autor Bodil Bredsdorff  is a popular Danish children's book author. She is the author of many books for children, including the Children of Crow Cove Series:   The Crow-Girl , a Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and an ALA Notable;  Eidi, a Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book; Tink ; and Alek . Bodil Bredsdorff lives in Hundested, Denmark. Klappentext A timeless novel about the kindness of strangers Near a little cove where a brook runs out to the sea live a girl and her grandmother. All alone with no neighbors at all, the two lead a peaceful existence. They have a house, dine on sea kale and mussels and sand snails, and build fires from driftwood. But the grandmother is very old. When the time comes that the girl must bury the woman, she makes up a funeral song about the birds she is watching: Two crows never fly alone, and death is never, ever past. The next day the same crows seem to beckon her, and so the Crow-Girl begins her journey, one in which she will meet people both warm and cold, hurt and hurtful. And the Crow-Girl, before she knows it, has the makings before her of a new family . . . This lyrical story, with its characters' moments of darkness always overcome through incredible humanity, introduces a strong new voice for American readers.

Product details

• Authors: Bodil Bredsdorff, Faith/ Ingwersen Ingwersen
• Assisted by: Faith Ingwersen (Translation)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2006
• EAN: 9780374400033
• ISBN: 978-0-374-40003-3
• No. of pages: 155
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 191 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Children of Crow Cove; Children of Crow Cove
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs > Fairytales and sagas