MIEKO AND FIFTH TREASURE : Opinion & Author

OPINION

The book is interesting because it talks about a historical event from the perspective of someone who went through it.

Despite losing her most precious talent, Mieko, the girl in the book, is able to see everything in a different way and overcome the bad comments of her new classmates.

My favorite character was Mieko's grandfather, his wisdom and patience to help Mieko is very beautiful and the beauty is that in the end Mieko regains the ability to return to traditional calligraphy.

In spite of being a children's book, the teaching and beauty of another culture are captured.

AUTHOR

Eleanor Coerr  was a Canadian-born American writer of children's books, including Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (historical fiction), Mieko and Fifth Treasure and many picture books, she was born on May 29, 1922.

She was born in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in Saskatoon. As a child, she liked to think up and read new stories. Through her best friend in high school, who was born to Japanese immigrants, Coerr developed an interest in calligraphy, Japanese food, and origami. She was exposed to Japanese scenery and told her friend that she wished to visit Japan one day, a request which Coerr fulfilled during the writing of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.

Her later work included children's books, philanthropy, and giving lectures at American universities and overseas

Coerr died on November 22, 2010 at the age of 88. Both she and her husband were cremated.