It's summer in the city, and this hot dog has had enough! Enough of sizzling sidewalks, enough of wailing sirens, enough of people's feet right in his face. When he plops down in the middle of a crosswalk, his owner endeavors to get him the breath of fresh air he needs. She hails a taxi, hops a train, and ferries out to the beach. Here, a pup can run! With fluid art and lyrical...(展开全部)

李维·宾福德，英国著名青年绘本作家，毕业于英国法尔茅斯大学。在校期间即已形成自己的独特的基于写实倾向的唯美画风。除绘画外，李维也热衷于故事创作。自大学毕业至今，一直作为自由插画家活跃在艺坛。 李维的绘本作品形式独特而别致。他擅长以精巧的故事配以细节丰富的图画，展现一种既紧贴生活又飘逸出尘的创作风格。他的图画书处女作《TheDjango》（《蒂亚戈》）出版后即入围2011年凯特.格林纳威大奖，并使他荣获英国图书信托基金会最佳新兴插画家奖。 《大黑狗》是李维创作的第二本书，出版即荣获2013年凯特.格林纳威大奖、2013年美国图书馆协会推荐童书和2013年考文垂灵感书奖等诸多荣誉。

An enormous black dog and a very tiny little girl star in this offbeat tale about confronting one’s fears. When a huge black dog appears outside the Hope family home, each member of the household sees it and hides. Only Small, the youngest Hope, has the courage to face the black dog, who might not be as frightening as everyone else thinks.

One of the most beloved novels of our time， Richard Adams s Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields， forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns. It is a powerful saga of courage， leadership and survival; an epic tale of a hardy band of adventurers forced to flee the destruction of their fragile com...(展开全部)

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher and writer Kate Manne. It argues tha...(展开全部)

One of the most beloved novels of our time， Richard Adams s Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields， forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns. It is a powerful saga of courage， leadership and survival; an epic tale of a hardy band of adventurers forced to flee the destruction of their fragile com...(展开全部)

After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill ...(展开全部)

It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunshine a...(展开全部)

比尔·布莱森，世界知名的非虚构作家，1951年出生于美国艾奥瓦州，曾任职于伦敦《泰晤士报》与《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》等刊物撰文。作品主要包括旅游类随笔、幽默独特的科普作品——比如《万物简史》、《母语》等等，横跨多种领域，皆为非学院派的幽默之作。他的作品诙谐嘲谑的风格堪称一绝、整体上举重若轻，能让普通读者产生很强的认同感，不失为雅俗共赏的典范，深受读者喜爱，也获得很高的评价，每部作品均高踞美、英、加畅销排行榜前茅。 比尔·布莱森之所以能在二十世纪的旅游文学中占据一席之地，并成为目前世界公认的最有趣的旅游文学作家，是因为他擅长用不同的眼光来看待他所游历的世界，他真切地捕捉到了一个旅人的内心感受。自然地理、生活情趣、社会时态，布莱森信手拈来无不奇趣，使普通读者产生很强的认同感。他的尖刻加上他的博学，让他的文字充满了智慧、机敏和幽默...(展开全部)

There's never been another dog as delightful -- or dirty -- as Harry. Whether he's a white dog with black spots, or a black dog with white spots, Harry is sure to steal your heart (and your scrub brush, too, if you're not careful).</p> First published in 1956, this beloved classic is a collaboration between Gene Zion and two-time Caldecott Honor winner Margaret Bloy Graham. ...(展开全部)