As a child and parent walk down the block to the bay and turn to walk back home, evening falls upon the neighborhood. As the walk begins, the squirrels are in the yards, the boys are mowing lawns, a neighbor is baking a pie, and someone is mailing a letter. When the child and parent turn to walk back home, the apple pie is down from the windowsill, the leaves are raked up, an...(展开全部)

Daily Mail 'These mesmerising stories present a glimpse of modern China more nuanced than any reporter could ever hop to gleam.' Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard 'a wonderfully well-written, fascinating and affecting collection of stories.' The Observer 'Li's ...(展开全部)

Night is coming and small things without words are going to sleep . . . sleepy bunnies, sleepy birds, and sleepy children, too, are getting under their covers. "Jean Charlot's illustrations are first-rate." --NYT. Barbara Bader called this 1943 book, now restored to its original size and format, "the first of the true bedtime books." 1944 Caldecott Honor Book

玛格丽特•怀兹•布朗（Margaret Wise Brown ，1910-1952）/著 美国图画书界先驱性人物，“黄金时代”代表人物之一，天才图画书作家，四次凯迪克奖获得者。在童书领域，要论与童年情感的完美共鸣，罕有作者能与玛格丽特·怀兹·布朗相匹敌。玛格丽特1932年毕业于维吉尼亚州霍林斯学院，后加入当时在美国推行先进教育改革实验的银行街教育学院，在这一时期，她将自己的文学志向与儿童发展和幼儿教育的研究结合了起来。玛格丽特拥有一种独特的能力，能透过儿童的眼睛看世界，她为图画书创作提供了全新的且经久不衰的维度。玛格丽特创作的许多深受欢迎的作品，如《晚安，月亮》《逃家小兔》《小岛》《重要书》《我的世界》《孩子的晚安书》等等，在经过许多年后，仍然让无数的小读者感到欢愉。 让•夏洛（Jean Charlot ，1898-1979）/绘 著名的壁画家、版画...(展开全部)

Night is coming and small things without words are going to sleep . . . sleepy bunnies, sleepy birds, and sleepy children, too, are getting under their covers. "Jean Charlot's illustrations are first-rate." —NYT. Barbara Bader called this 1943 book, now restored to its original size and format, "the first of the true bedtime books." 1944 Caldecott Honor Book

Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fas...(展开全部)

Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-...(展开全部)

A little rabbit greets each day and says good night to the familiar things outside.

In this wonderful autobiography-funny, moving, exciting, reflective, history haunted-a man writes in valedictory to his striving and achieving twenties and thirties, and to this nation's sunny years under Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. That the man is Russell Baker, author of the classic Growing Up, assures us of the treasures to be mined in this successor volume. From newsbo...(展开全部)