Benjamin and Anna love staying with their cousin Robin in his house near the forest. In the autumn, Robin takes them to see his favourite tree - a giant oak which is 300-years-old. The children build a den under the oak tree's giant branches and watch the squirrels hide acorns in its wide trunk. In the winter they ski through the forest and meet the foresters who chose which tr...(展开全部)

热尔达·穆雷，1926年生于荷兰，曾先后在阿姆斯特丹美术学院和巴黎艾蒂安娜艺术学院学习绘画。她出版过120多部儿童作品，被翻译成多种语言。代表作品有《四季绘本》《下雨天他们去了哪儿？》《金发姑娘和三只熊》等。

It was 1982, the summer of the Falkland Islands War, and the birth of the royal heir, Prince William--and the ideal time, Theroux found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result is a candid, funny, perceptive, and opinionated travelogue of his journey and his findings.

After eleven years of living as an American in London, Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like; the result is this perceptive, hilarious record of the journey.

Watch the wind blow through beautiful scenes of each month of the year. Charming illustrations and fun, engaging rhymes will enchant toddlers as they learn about the wind; holding kites high in the spring, pushing sailboats in the summer, tossing leaves around in the fall, and making snowflakes dance in the winter. Hanna Konola's illustrations are popular the world over. A Year...(展开全部)

In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sist...(展开全部)

In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sist...(展开全部)

Watch the wind blow through beautiful scenes of each month of the year. Charming illustrations and fun, engaging rhymes will enchant toddlers as they learn about the wind; holding kites high in the spring, pushing sailboats in the summer, tossing leaves around in the fall, and making snowflakes dance in the winter. Hanna Konola's illustrations are popular the world over. A Year...(展开全部)

An urban antidote to A Year in Provence, Stephen Clarke's book is a laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of an expat in Paris-for Francophiles and Francophobes alike. A Year in the Merde is the almost-true account of the author's adventures as an expat in Paris. Based on his own experiences and with names changed to "avoid embarrassment, possible legal action-and to ...(展开全部)

First published in 1968 to universal critical acclaim, this definitive account of Stalin’s Terror is reissued with a new introduction which revisits the book in light of glasnost. When first published in 1968, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed as one of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union. Now, in this revised and updated edition, Robert Conque...(展开全部)