韩素音(1916— )，本名周光瑚，著名英籍华人女作家。先后在燕京大学、比利时布鲁塞尔大学就读。一生致力于中国和西方世界的沟通与理解。作品有自传《伤残的树》《凋谢的花朵》《无鸟的夏天》《吾宅双门》《再生凤凰》，小说《瑰宝》《青山青》《等到早晨来临》，传记《周恩来与他的世纪》《早晨的洪流：毛泽东与中国革命》等。自传体小说《瑰宝》奠定了韩素音在国际文坛上的地位，1956年，据此改编的电影Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing获得了三项奥斯卡奖。

[加]朱莉·莫斯塔德（Julie Morstad） 朱莉·莫斯塔德是一位来自加拿大的优秀绘本作家，她创作了《绽放》《美妙的一天》等一系列美丽的绘本，并获得过阿尔昆图书设计奖、玛丽莲·贝利图画书奖等大奖，还曾入围加拿大总督文学奖。 《时间是一朵花》为朱莉赢得了2021《纽约时报》/纽约公共图书馆最佳儿童绘本奖。

Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasin...(展开全部)

If the fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women (who would not ordinarily look twice at Will) were willing to date him, then Will had it made. Inventing a son got him into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else's very real son -- a twelve-year-old with a lot to teach Will about being a grown up.

Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasin...(展开全部)

If the fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women (who would not ordinarily look twice at Will) were willing to date him, then Will had it made. Inventing a son got him into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else's very real son -- a twelve-year-old with a lot to teach Will about being a grown up.

Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in post-Independence India and involving the lives of four large families and those who orbit them, it is also a vast panoramic exploration of a whole continent at a crucial hour as a sixth of th...(展开全部)

2015 Schneider Family Book Award Winner * "A candid and deeply resonant account of a hard-fought battle against societal stigma, and an embrace of one's true talent and calling." —Publisher's Weekly, starred review Speaking for the animals he loves gives one boy’s life hope, purpose, and truth in this gorgeous picture book autobiography. Alan loves animals, but the great cat ho...(展开全部)

2015 Schneider Family Book Award Winner * "A candid and deeply resonant account of a hard-fought battle against societal stigma, and an embrace of one's true talent and calling." —Publisher's Weekly, starred review Speaking for the animals he loves gives one boy’s life hope, purpose, and truth in this gorgeous picture book autobiography. Alan loves animals, but the great cat ho...(展开全部)

Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended fa...(展开全部)