Bodil bredsdorff biography for kids pictures

On her Web site, she describes her target audience as "the twelve-to-thirteen year-olds who ask the important questions but are not yet hit by a youth's or adult's love problems, jealousy, and disappointments. Bredsdorff was born in a town on the Danish island of Zealand. She studied advertising art and obtained a degree in education.

After teaching preschool, she worked in children's television, producing programming for Danish National Television. She began writing children's books in the s, and a manuscript she entered in a competition for Scandinavian writers was named a runner-up. Other books in the popular series followed.

A few tidbits about Danish children's author Bodil Bredsdorff and her inspiration behind the heartwarming story of a girl who was called the Crow-Girl.

The Crow-Girl takes place in a village similar to one its author once visited on the Scottish island of Jura, a remote spot in a small cove where she had first observed wild goats and seals. Myna lives with her grandmother on a lonely stretch of coast. The grandmother teaches Myna how to use the bounty of the sea, but when she senses that her life is coming to an end, she also offers the girl advice on survival that later serves Myna well.

When the old woman dies, Myna follows two crows until she meets a cold-hearted woman who names her Crow Girl. Myna flees from this evil person and continues following the crows.

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She goes on to meet a number of people, some of whom have also suffered great loss, and forms lasting bonds with several of them. When she returns to her grandmother's cottage, she is no longer alone. The friends who now accompany her help in planting a garden, caring for a flock of sheep, and hunting for game. A Publishers Weekly contributor wrote that Bredsdorff's story "winds to a close that, despite its fairy tale quality, is credible and satisfying.