Day of the Dragon King

Osborne, Mary Pope

ISBN 10 : 0679990518 ISBN 13 : 9780679990512

Editeur : Random House Childrens Books, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Osborne Mary Pope

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

*  Mary Pope Osborne grew up in the military, and by the time she was fifteen had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina.

* After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1970's, Mary traveled all over Europe, and spent the first six weeks of her trip living in a cave on the island of Crete.  She then joined up with a group of European young people and traveled in rickety vans through sixteen Asian countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal.

* She was a bartender, an acting teacher, a waitress, a travel agent, a window dresser, and a medical assistant -- all before becoming an author!  Now she is the author of many highly acclaimed picture books, early chapter books, middle-grade biographies, and young adult novels.

* In February 1993, Mary was elected the 27th president of the Author's Guild, the oldest, most established organization for writers in the United States.

* Mary her husband Will spilt their time between an apartment in Greenwich Village, New York and a cabin in Pennsylvania.  They own a terrier named Bailey, who sleeps on the top of Mary's desk every day while she writes!  

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Jack and Annie set off to find an original copy of an ancient Chinese myth. Armed only with their magic library cards, they must take on a book-burning emperor. But with the help of a scholar and a silk weaver, they triumph again.  

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Random House Childrens Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679990518
• ISBN 13: 9780679990512
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Nombre de pages: 68
• Illustrateur: Murdocca Sal