Adele Marie Crouch
Autor/a de How the Fox Got His Color
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Adele Marie Crouch
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Crouch, Adele Marie
- Data de naixement
- 1948
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Nevada City, California, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Elfrida, Arizona, USA
- Professions
- author
artist - Organitzacions
- Arizona Authors Association
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Elfrida Art Center., Inc.
Art League of Willcox - Biografia breu
- Adele Crouch and her husband, Doug, are retired and living in the home they built in an area they jokingly refer to as "the middle of no-where." They are enjoying their retirement years in the peaceful foothills of the Dragoon mountains in southeast Arizona. She is an artist, as well as being an author and spends much of her time lost in the world of painting. She is currently the featured artist at the Korner Store, on the corner of Jefferson and Highway 191, in Elfrida.
Adele Marie Crouch was born in Nevada City, California to Robert and Elizabeth Deschwanden in 1948. Her life’s dream was to be an artist. While raising three children, she has sold nearly everything she painted and won many ribbons at County Fairs and fine-art shows.
Adele has been published in Phoenix Home & Garden as well as numerous newspapers for her research on herbal history. She and her husband also owned and published the “Tombstone Independent”, a free newspaper “For Tombstone – About Tombstone.” Her eldest daughter, Charlie, while serving in the Marine Corps as a journalist, pestered her continually to write. In August of 1997, Adele sat down in front of the computer Charlie bought for her the previous Christmas and began her story. Adele brought her relatives to America and then let her imagination run wild. The end result — Catherine’s Travels – Book I. Adele is in the process of writing Lawson’s Search; Catherine’s Travels - Book II.
Membres
Ressenyes
The Dance of the Caterpillars by Adele Marie Crouch Illustrated very colorful book for children. This is to be used as a learning tool when learning a foreign language and there are more examples at the author's website. This particular book shows everyday things and tells about them in English and under that is another paragraph is another language. Shows fairies sprinkling magic dust on the caterpillars, they spin making cocoons and they are set for winter months. This version is Spanish and English. B00427YLAW… (més)
The illustrations in this book are absolutely beautiful. A young girl sits with her grandmother and listens to her tell a story passed down from her own grandmother. The story is about where hummingbirds come from. According to the story they come from some magic water around the grandmother’s house and they and the water appeared around the grandmother’s birthday. This is a great story shared from one generation to another. It shows the importance of sharing stories with our grandchildren, knowing that one day they may pass them on to their children.
This book has been translated into several languages, making it a true bilingual book that children of many languages can enjoy while either learning English, or learning their native language.… (més)
This book has been translated into several languages, making it a true bilingual book that children of many languages can enjoy while either learning English, or learning their native language.… (més)
This book is fun! A mischievous fox frolics his way through fields of butterflies, fences, ponds and rainbows to a surprising end.
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 6
- Membres
- 72
- Popularitat
- #243,043
- Valoració
- 3.4
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 29
- Llengües
- 10
I was rather unsettled by the interruption of blocks of factual information. The story ambles along nicely, then all of a sudden, the narrative changes from the third person to the author’s POV, and history is brought to the present day. The history is indeed interesting, but I would have preferred a synopsis at the end so that the choice was mine whether or not to read it. I haven’t been able to decide if this is a story based around fact, or fact moulded around a story.
As for the story, if you like saccharine, then this is for you. It was a little too sickly for my tastes. Catherine was a little too perfect to be true, and I found it hard to understand why she didn’t try to escape from her loathsome captor. She seemed to enjoy her travels just a tad too incredibly, and some aspects of the story were a little hurried.
However, the author has clearly done a good deal of research, and the authenticity of the dialogue and description of life at the time is very impressive. The book is a sequel, and for the most part stands alone. I had to make a few assumptions along the way, but this didn’t mar the essence of the story.
Nevertheless, I did find myself rather embroiled in the story and found myself rather captivated by the setting: there’s something rather appealing, even enchanting, about the culture of American Indians.… (més)