When the curator of a Danish museum responds to a query about ancient exhibits, he doesn’t expect a reply. When Tina Hopgood first wrote it, nor did she … Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife, along with his hopes and dreams for the future. He does not know that a query from a Mrs Tina Hopgood about a world-famous antiquity in his museum is about t...(展开全部)

An Indie Next and LibraryReads Selection “The charmer of the summer.” ―NPR “Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor.” ―Annie Barrows, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society In Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife and his hopes...(展开全部)

Duration: 06:33:34 "Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor." —Annie Barrows, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society In Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife and his hopes for the future. On an isolated English farm, Tina Hopgo...(展开全部)

Pete is spending the day at the seashore. He has fun collecting shells and building a sand castle. But the beach is very hot. There is a whole ocean for Pete to cool off in, but it looks scary. Pete's brother, Bob, offers to teach Pete to surf. Will that be enough to help Pete get over his fear of the water?

1990 英国格林威大奖(The Kate Greenaway Medal)作品。 格林威大奖是由英国图书馆学会(The Library Association)于1955年创设，该奖项的设立是为纪念十九世纪的儿童插画家凯特·格林威女士(Kate Greenaway)，该奖设有“年度最杰出的儿童插画家”、“最佳推荐奖”及“荣誉奖”。 这些奖项每年由英国图书馆学会邀请“青少年图书馆协会”（The Youth Libraries Group）会长、副会长及图书馆协会成员组成“评选委员会”负责评分。该奖项的评分标准非常严格，着重创作精神与出版形式是否能够符合大会遴选的角度并从绘本的编排及设计去考量，对于插画部分，更是精挑细选，强调插图主题必须能让小孩理解、有所共鸣，而且讲究图文间的和谐性，就连版面设计也马虎不得，足见格林威大奖能在许多国际权威的大奖中执牛耳...(展开全部)

Lilly listens to her grandmother's tales of whales and longs to hear the creatures' powerful songs for herself. This eloquent work celebrates the extraordinary relationship between a young girl and the whales that do eventually sing for her. Full color.

Lilly listens to her grandmother's tales of whales and longs to hear the creatures' powerful songs for herself. This eloquent work celebrates the extraordinary relationship between a young girl and the whales that do eventually sing for her. Full color.

At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and more-than-human forces, the seashore is also a space o...(展开全部)

A truly original - and utterly compulsive - novel, reminiscent of MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN and A SUITABLE BOY for its scope and vitality. Set in Dublin and its near surrounds AT SWIM, TWO BOYS follows the turbulent year to Easter 1916. At its core it tells the love of two boys, Jim, a naive and reticent scholar, the younger son of foolish, aspirant shopkeeper Mr Mack, and Doyler, th...(展开全部)