Illus. in full color. "In this gentle, moving story, Elfie, a dachshund, and her special boy progress happily through life together. One morning Elfie does not wake up. The family grieves and buries her. The watercolor illustrations, tender and warm in color and mood, suit the simple text perfectly."-- School Library Journal.

Illus. in full color. " In this gentle, moving story, Elfie, a dachshund, and her special boy progress happily through life together. One morning Elfie does not wake up. The family grieves and buries her. The watercolor illustrations, tender and warm in color and mood, suit the simple text perfectly." --"School Library Journal."

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Bra...(展开全部)

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Bra...(展开全部)

[美] 玛戈泽蒙克 玛戈泽蒙克出生在美国洛杉矶。1959年开始，她通过丈夫哈维，为图书画插画。后来他们一起创作了许多儿童书，其中包括这本《绝妙的馊主意》，获得凯迪克银奖；《法官：一个不真实的故事》，获得凯迪克银奖；《一分钱看一次》，美国图书馆协会推荐好书；《达菲和魔鬼》，获得凯迪克奖。

Margot Zemach's It Could Always Be Worse is a 1977 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year, an Outstanding Book of the Year, and a 1978 Caldecott Honor Book. Once upon a time a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife, and his six children in a one-room hut. Because they were so crowded, the children often fought and the man and his wife argue...(展开全部)

[美] 玛戈泽蒙克 玛戈泽蒙克出生在美国洛杉矶。1959年开始，她通过丈夫哈维，为图书画插画。后来他们一起创作了许多儿童书，其中包括这本《绝妙的馊主意》，获得凯迪克银奖；《法官：一个不真实的故事》，获得凯迪克银奖；《一分钱看一次》，美国图书馆协会推荐好书；《达菲和魔鬼》，获得凯迪克奖。

Margot Zemach's It Could Always Be Worse is a 1977 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year, an Outstanding Book of the Year, and a 1978 Caldecott Honor Book. Once upon a time a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife, and his six children in a one-room hut. Because they were so crowded, the children often fought and the man and his wife argue...(展开全部)

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full...(展开全部)

In this groundbreaking book -- the first popular book on narcissism in more than a decade -- clinical social worker and psychotherapist Sandy Hotchkiss shows you how to cope with controlling, egotistical people who are incapable of the fundamental give-and-take that sustains healthy relationships. Exploring how individuals come to have this shortcoming, why you get drawn into t...(展开全部)