Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

珍妮弗·霍曼斯（Jennifer Homans），哥伦比亚大学文学学士、纽约大学现代欧洲史博士。早年是一位专业芭蕾舞演员，曾在北卡罗莱纳州艺术学院、美国芭蕾舞剧院及美国芭蕾舞学校学习，在芝加哥抒情歌剧院芭蕾舞团、旧金山芭蕾舞团和太平洋西北芭蕾舞团表演。目前她是一位卓越的舞蹈艺术与文化学者，为《纽约时报》《国际先驱论坛报》《纽约书评》和《澳大利亚人报》撰稿，还是《新共和》杂志的舞蹈评论家。

珍妮弗·霍曼斯（Jennifer Homans），哥伦比亚大学文学学士、纽约大学现代欧洲史博士。早年是一位专业芭蕾舞演员，曾在北卡罗莱纳州艺术学院、美国芭蕾舞剧院及美国芭蕾舞学校学习，在芝加哥抒情歌剧院芭蕾舞团、旧金山芭蕾舞团和太平洋西北芭蕾舞团表演。目前她是一位卓越的舞蹈艺术与文化学者，为《纽约时报》《国际先驱论坛报》《纽约书评》和《澳大利亚人报》撰稿，还是《新共和》杂志的舞蹈评论家。

For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps a...(展开全部)

珍妮弗·霍曼斯（Jennifer Homans），哥伦比亚大学文学学士、纽约大学现代欧洲史博士。早年是一位专业芭蕾舞演员，曾在北卡罗莱纳州艺术学院、美国芭蕾舞剧院及美国芭蕾舞学校学习，在芝加哥抒情歌剧院芭蕾舞团、旧金山芭蕾舞团和太平洋西北芭蕾舞团表演。目前她是一位卓越的舞蹈艺术与文化学者，为《纽约时报》《国际先驱论坛报》《纽约书评》和《澳大利亚人报》撰稿，还是《新共和》杂志的舞蹈评论家。

珍妮弗·霍曼斯（Jennifer Homans），哥伦比亚大学文学学士、纽约大学现代欧洲史博士。早年是一位专业芭蕾舞演员，曾在北卡罗莱纳州艺术学院、美国芭蕾舞剧院及美国芭蕾舞学校学习，在芝加哥抒情歌剧院芭蕾舞团、旧金山芭蕾舞团和太平洋西北芭蕾舞团表演。目前她是一位卓越的舞蹈艺术与文化学者，为《纽约时报》《国际先驱论坛报》《纽约书评》和《澳大利亚人报》撰稿，还是《新共和》杂志的舞蹈评论家。

For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps a...(展开全部)

Memory makes us human. No other animal carries in its brain so many memories of such complexity nor so regularly revisits those memories for happiness, safety, and to accomplish complex tasks. Human civilization continues because we are able to pass along memories from one person to another, from one generation to the next. The Guardian of All Things is scientific history that ...(展开全部)

Memory makes us human. No other animal carries in its brain so many memories of such complexity nor so regularly revisits those memories for happiness, safety, and to accomplish complex tasks. Human civilization continues because we are able to pass along memories from one person to another, from one generation to the next. The Guardian of All Things is scientific history that ...(展开全部)