U.S. children's author Ruth Stiles Gannett dies at 100

American children's author Ruth Stiles Gannett, who wrote the 1948 book "My Father's Dragon," has died in the United States, a source close to her in Japan said Friday. She was 100.Gannett, who died on Tuesday local time in the United States, was best known for the trilogy of books that began with her internationally-beloved story. The series was published in Japanese in the mid-1960s, selling around 7.8 million copies.In Japan, the works of Gannett, who was born in 1923 in New York City, were adapted into puppet plays on public broadcaster NHK, and into a 1997 animated feature film.An exhi…READ FULL ARTICLE