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雷蒙德·布里格斯，1934年出生于英国伦敦南郊的一个工人家庭，15岁进入温布尔顿艺术学校，接受正规的艺术教育。作品丰富，曾两次获得凯特·格林威大奖，并获得过荷兰银画笔奖、英国弗朗西斯·威廉奖等多项大奖。作品被翻译成多种文字，并被改编成动画片。

"In a sequence of enchanting vignettes, Father Christmas makes careful preparations for his annual sleigh ride. . . . One of the most irresistible yuletide books to appear in many years."--Horn Book. A Kate Greenaway Medal Book.

Luigi Zoja views the origin and evolution of the father from a Jungian perspective. He argues that the father's role in bringing up children is a social construction that has been subject to change throughout history - and looks at the consequences of this, along with the crisis facing fatherhood today. The Father will be welcomed by people from a wide variety of disciplines, i...(展开全部)

编剧：雅安（Yann），全名雅安·勒贝纳捷（Yann Le Pennetier），法语漫画最著名的编剧之一。20世纪80年代因参与在《史壁虎》漫画杂志上连载的几部漫画而走红。他擅长创作从幽默到冒险等不同风格的脚本，参与创作过《幸运卢克》《史壁虎》等多个家喻户晓的漫画系列和单行本作品。 绘画：罗曼·于高特（Romain Hugault），主要创作关于两次世界大战的飞行题材作品，而其作品的真正主角往往是某一种型号的飞机。于高特出身于军事飞行员世家，从小就对航空感兴趣，17岁那年就拿到了自己的飞行驾驶证。他拥有一架小型飞机，“二战”期间，法国朱安元帅曾经乘坐过这架飞机。 译者：徐敢，文学学士，法学博士，曾游学法国。有《中国的启示》《莎拉珊德》等译作，并为法国电影展翻译过40余部影片。

Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide and more an a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else's story of hate and division, resistance and revolt. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart - and other parts of the human body - considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, a...(展开全部)

Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide and more an a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second-grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

Ramona Quimby is a character intimately known by Beverly Cleary readers. In this story of Ramona's year in second grade they will come to know Mr. Quimby equally well. As it opens he loses his job without warning, and Ramona's seven-year-old view of this all-too-frequently family crisis rings every change of mood from tears to laughter.Not surprisingly, Ramona takes an active h...(展开全部)