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La reine du Niagara
Il y a plus d’un siècle, aux Etats-Unis, une institutrice de soixante-deux ans, Annie Edson Taylor est en fin de carrière et sans perspectives d’avenir devant elle. Elle cherche alors une idée pour faire fortune et finit par la trouver : elle va descendre les chutes du Niagara dans un tonneau, un exploit encore jamais accompli....
Juvenile literatureDaredevilsBiographyWomen daredevils
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERl'École des loisirs
LENGTH36
LANGUAGEFR
Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote; both were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator, he was a 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial International Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012.
2.0
La reine du Niagara
Il y a plus d’un siècle, aux Etats-Unis, une institutrice de soixante-deux ans, Annie Edson Taylor est en fin de carrière et sans perspectives d’avenir devant elle. Elle cherche alors une idée pour faire fortune et finit par la trouver : elle va descendre les chutes du Niagara dans un tonneau, un exploit encore jamais accompli....
Juvenile literatureDaredevilsBiographyWomen daredevils
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERl'École des loisirs
LENGTH36
LANGUAGEFR
Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote; both were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator, he was a 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial International Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012.
