To a small child, words are magical. And the most magical of all are the beloved, venerable words of Mother Goose. Now folklorist Iona Opie has gathered more than sixty treasured rhymes in their most perfect, honest form. From "Hey Diddle, Diddle" and "Pat-a-Cake" to "Little Jack Horner" and "Pussycat, Pussycat," these are familiar verses that have been passed from parent to...(展开全部)

A sequel to the critically acclaimed My First Movie , Stephen Lowenstein once again talks to some of our most celebrated filmmakers about their debut films. Lowenstein interviews ten directors about their career-launching film and how they got the movie off the ground: how they raised the finance, found actors, searched for locations, worked with the crew and saw the project t...(展开全部)

A sequel to the critically acclaimed My First Movie , Stephen Lowenstein once again talks to some of our most celebrated filmmakers about their debut films. Lowenstein interviews ten directors about their career-launching film and how they got the movie off the ground: how they raised the finance, found actors, searched for locations, worked with the crew and saw the project t...(展开全部)

To a small child, words are magical. And the most magical of all are the beloved, venerable words of Mother Goose. Now folklorist Iona Opie has gathered more than sixty treasured rhymes in their most perfect, honest form. From "Hey Diddle, Diddle" and "Pat-a-Cake" to "Little Jack Horner" and "Pussycat, Pussycat," these are familiar verses that have been passed from parent to...(展开全部)

加思·尼克斯（也译作贾斯·尼克斯）是澳大利亚奇幻作家，也是一位被英美主流市场认可的外国奇幻天才，他的代表作有“古王国”系列、“第七高塔”系列、“7王圣钥”系列等。 加思·尼克斯的作品深受读者喜爱。出版至今，他的作品已被译成38国语言，行销全球超过500万册。“古王国”系列中的首部曾再版20余次，其他作品以逐一荣登美国《纽约时代》《出版人周刊》英国《书商》杂志《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书榜，并因个性鲜明的品质入选美国图书馆青少年最佳推荐图书、纽约公共图书馆推荐书单、《轨迹》杂志推荐奇幻小说书单。 作者荣誉榜： ★世界顶级幻想杂志美国《轨迹》推荐 ★美国《纽约时代》畅销榜 ★美国《出版人周刊》畅销榜 ★英国《书商》杂志畅销榜 ★英国《星期日泰晤士报》畅销榜 ★美国亚马逊年度好书 ★美国图书馆青少年最佳推荐图书 ★美国青少年图书馆协会年度好书 ★纽约公共图书馆...(展开全部)

In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, ob...(展开全部)

Review 'It's clear from the first page that this is prize-winning stuff... Being a truthful writer, Jones sees nothing neither his heroes nor his villains in black and white. His is a bold inquiry into the way that we construct and repair our communities, and ourselves, with stories old and new' (The Times ) 'In this dazzling story-within-a-story, Jones has created a microcosm...(展开全部)

'You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.' Bougainville. 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda's...(展开全部)

Mister Miracle is magical, dark, intimate and unlike anything you've read before. Scott Free is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. So great, he escaped Granny Goodness' gruesome orphanage and the dangers of Apokolips to travel across galaxies and set up a new life on Earth with his wife, Big Barda. Using the stage alter ego of Mister Miracle, he has made quite a career ...(展开全部)

加思·尼克斯（也译作贾斯·尼克斯）是澳大利亚奇幻作家，也是一位被英美主流市场认可的外国奇幻天才，他的代表作有“古王国”系列、“第七高塔”系列、“7王圣钥”系列等。 加思·尼克斯的作品深受读者喜爱。出版至今，他的作品已被译成38国语言，行销全球超过500万册。“古王国”系列中的首部曾再版20余次，其他作品以逐一荣登美国《纽约时代》《出版人周刊》英国《书商》杂志《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书榜，并因个性鲜明的品质入选美国图书馆青少年最佳推荐图书、纽约公共图书馆推荐书单、《轨迹》杂志推荐奇幻小说书单。 作者荣誉榜： ★世界顶级幻想杂志美国《轨迹》推荐 ★美国《纽约时代》畅销榜 ★美国《出版人周刊》畅销榜 ★英国《书商》杂志畅销榜 ★英国《星期日泰晤士报》畅销榜 ★美国亚马逊年度好书 ★美国图书馆青少年最佳推荐图书 ★美国青少年图书馆协会年度好书 ★纽约公共图书馆...(展开全部)