Frank is a unique, visionary comic, exquisitely drawn and so fully realized that adults and children alike find themselves drawn deeply into Woodring's hallucinatory mindscape. The stories, almost entirely wordless, unravel like a good puzzle, rewarding re-reading, providing an experience as immersive as that first love affair, that first samadhi, or that first breath. Simply p...(展开全部)

'One day I shall repay you for your kindness.' With these words a rat makes a solemn promise to a lion who has allowed the tiny creature to escape from between his fearsome paws. But what can a little rat do to help a mighty lion, the King of the Jungle? The simple messages of this La Fontaine fable - that acts of kindness will always be returned and that even the strongest and...(展开全部)

Caught during a failed robbery, Slippery Jim diGriz cuts a deal--to journey to a prison planet filled with homicidal maniacs to recover a lost alien artifact--that puts his freedom and his life on the line.

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. ...(展开全部)

罗伦·乔尔德1967年出生于英国，在西南部的威尔特郡长大。她曾在英国曼彻斯特工艺学校和伦敦艺术学院主修插画和复合媒体，毕业后她与人合资创办了“Chandeliers for the People”公司，设计制作别致的灯罩。她还为设计公司“Big Fish”工作。 1999年她出版的自写自画的《我想养宠物》（I Want a Pet）。也是这一年，因为风格太前卫而一直让出版社犹疑不决的《小豆芽，就是我》（Clarice Bean, That’s me，1999）终于出版了。这本让人耳目一新的书，为罗伦赢得了当年凯特·格林威奖的提名以及雀巢聪明豆儿童图书奖铜奖、诺福克童书奖，也让她决定投身于图画书的创作。这项工作把她的个人爱好、童心与设计的才能完美地结合到了一起。她的主要作品除了“小豆芽系列”，还有获得凯特·格林威奖提名的《小心大野狼》（Beware o...(展开全部)

罗伦·乔尔德1967年出生于英国，在西南部的威尔特郡长大。她曾在英国曼彻斯特工艺学校和伦敦艺术学院主修插画和复合媒体，毕业后她与人合资创办了“Chandeliers for the People”公司，设计制作别致的灯罩。她还为设计公司“Big Fish”工作。 1999年她出版的自写自画的《我想养宠物》（I Want a Pet）。也是这一年，因为风格太前卫而一直让出版社犹疑不决的《小豆芽，就是我》（Clarice Bean, That’s me，1999）终于出版了。这本让人耳目一新的书，为罗伦赢得了当年凯特·格林威奖的提名以及雀巢聪明豆儿童图书奖铜奖、诺福克童书奖，也让她决定投身于图画书的创作。这项工作把她的个人爱好、童心与设计的才能完美地结合到了一起。她的主要作品除了“小豆芽系列”，还有获得凯特·格林威奖提名的《小心大野狼》（Beware o...(展开全部)

In "Photography After Frank," former "New York Times" writer and picture editor Philip Gefter narrates the tale of contemporary photography, beginning at the pivotal moment when Robert Frank commenced his seminal works of the 1950s. Along the way, he connects the dots of photography's evolution into what it is today, forging links between its episodes to reveal unsuspected leap...(展开全部)