"Farmer Duck" is an amusing fable. Martin Waddell's awards include the Smarties Book Prize for "Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?", and "Farmer Duck", the Emil/Kurt Maschler Award for "The Park in the Dark" and the Best Books for Babies Award for "Rosies Babies". His other books include "The Big Big Sea", "Owl Babies", "Let's Go Home Little Bear", "John Joe and the Hen" and the "Li...(展开全部)

Martin Waddell's uplifting modern fable and Helen Oxenbury's humor and pathos make this a very special collaboration. Farmer Duck isn't your average duck. This duck cooks and cleans, tends the fields, and cares for the other animals on the farm—all because the owner of the farm is too lazy to do these things himself. But when Farmer Duck finally collapses from exhaustion, t...(展开全部)

马丁·韦德尔 1941年出生于北爱尔兰的贝尔费斯特，是爱尔兰知名作家。 2004年获得国际安徒生文学大奖。 作品曾多次获得英国史马提斯奖、凯特·格林纳威大奖、鹅妈妈大奖等国际知名奖项。 韦德尔的作品已累积超过一百本，与绘者芭芭拉·弗斯合作系列图画书：《你睡不着吗？》《做得好，小小熊》《我们回家吧》；和海伦·奥克森伯里合作《鸭子农夫》等。 海伦·奥克森伯里 享誉国际，最受欢迎的童书插画家之一。 1938年出生于英国萨福克郡，她曾在伦敦的中央艺术学院研习剧院设计。1979年，海伦以《旺格的帽子和平凡之家的龙》一书获得凯特·格林纳威大奖，1999年，她为刘易斯·卡洛尔的《爱丽丝漫游奇境》重新绘制了插图，这本书又为她赢得了第二个凯特·格林纳威奖。此外，她还因《我们要去捉狗熊》《鸭子农夫》《三只小狼和大坏猪》和《太多》分别于1988年、1991年、1993年和...(展开全部)

The story of a boy named Almanzo Wilder . . . While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters work at their chores from dawn to supper most days-no matter what the weather. There is still time for fun, though, especially with the horses, which Almanzo loves mor...(展开全部)

Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." Seeking Wisdom is the result of Bevelin's learning about attaining wisdom. His quest for wisdom originated partly from making mistakes himself and observing those of others but also from the philosophy of super-invest...(展开全部)

Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." Seeking Wisdom is the result of Bevelin's learning about attaining wisdom. His quest for wisdom originated partly from making mistakes himself and observing those of others but also from the philosophy of super-invest...(展开全部)

Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of the slow, fragmented, and contentious transformation of Dabaodao—an area in the c...(展开全部)

Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark p...(展开全部)