Danny wishes his dad would come home from Nevada for Christmas
and writes him a letter to tell him so. When snow cuts off the mail
until spring, only postman John Thompson can get through the Sierra
Nevada Mountains to deliver his letter. Based on a true story, this
is lively historical fiction with a nice sense of character and
adventure, and] the illustrations are packed with feeling and
action.
關於作者:
Nancy Smiler Levinson was born in 1938 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, she worked as
a reporter, researcher, editor, and Head Start teacher before
taking time to raise her two children. It was while reading to her
kids when they were toddlers that Levinson first became interested
in writing for young people, and in 1981 she published her first
novel for young readers, World of Her Own. The first of many
critically acclaimed biographies came in 1981, and since then
Levinson has written a variety of well-received fiction and
nonfiction for beginning readers as well as middle grade and young
adult audiences.
Levinson has also contributed articles and stories to such
publications as Seventeen magazine, Highlights for Children,
Library Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. She has been a tutor
for disabled children. She lives in California, where she enjoys
reading and attending theater and symphonies.