The Funny Thing is Wanda Gág's follow-up to her well-loved classic,Millions of Cats.It tells the story of a curious dragonlike"aminal"that eats children's dolls.A kindly man named Bobo cannot stand by and allow this to happen.He entices it to eat the concoction"jum-jills".

The Funny Thing is Wanda Gág's follow-up to her well-loved classic,Millions of Cats.It tells the story of a curious dragonlike"aminal"that eats children's dolls.A kindly man named Bobo cannot stand by and allow this to happen.He entices it to eat the concoction"jum-jills".

一个喜欢在还边收集瓶盖的男孩，发现了这个奇怪的生物。它是个大大的、怪怪的、又几乎没有任何人注意到的东西。它看起来完全不属于人们的日常生活......于是这个男孩把它带回家，并且试图找出它究竟该来自哪里又属于谁。这本花费了陈志勇（SHAUN TAN）流溢出他最怪异的才华与可爱的想象力，当然，也少不了他的黑色幽默。

A boy scavenges the beach for his bottle top collection when he discovers a lost “thing”; a large, freakish creature that looks like a cross between a crab and a pot-bellied stove. Thus begins a witty and strange narrative set in a creepy, futuristic environment. Shaun Tan’s artwork, collages comprised of such unusual elements as old textbook pages, oil paint, gears, and tubes,...(展开全部)

'He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn't hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him being a gom and Daddy was defending him. He heard the fondness in Daddy's voice. But you'd have fondness for an auld eejit of a crossbred pup that should have been drowned at birth.' While the Celtic Tiger rages, and g...(展开全部)

"This is that rarity, a useful book."--Warren Buffett Howard Marks, the chairman and cofounder of Oaktree Capital Management, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market opportunity and risk. After four decades spent ascending to the top of the investment management profession, he is today sought out by the world's leading value investors, and his client memos brim wi...(展开全部)

辛西娅·角畑，日裔美国人，美国著名儿童文学作家。生于芝加哥，在南加州大学获得新闻学学士学位。1986年开始在《纽约客》发表文章，擅长写日裔移民题材，作品曾获纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖、美国国家图书奖金奖、美国笔会儿童文学奖和简·亚当斯儿童图书奖等权威大奖。为了撰写《明天会有好运气》，辛西娅拜访了代收公司、儿童心理学家、研究蚊子的昆虫学博士、联合收割机驾驶员，还真的驾驶了一辆三万磅重的联合收割机！

辛西娅·角畑，日裔美国人，美国著名儿童文学作家。生于芝加哥，在南加州大学获得新闻学学士学位。1986年开始在《纽约客》发表文章，擅长写日裔移民题材，作品曾获纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖、美国国家图书奖金奖、美国笔会儿童文学奖和简·亚当斯儿童图书奖等权威大奖。为了撰写《明天会有好运气》，辛西娅拜访了代收公司、儿童心理学家、研究蚊子的昆虫学博士、联合收割机驾驶员，还真的驾驶了一辆三万磅重的联合收割机！

In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, the billionaire who founded Netscape and Silicon Graphics and who now aims to turn the healthcare industry on its head with his new billion-dollar project. Lewis...(展开全部)