Winnie, the Witch is tired of winter. She's tired of shivering in the cold and looking out at her garden covered in snow. And Wilbur is tired of frozen fur and whiskers. So, Winnie uses a little magic to bring summer and sunshine to her house. But just as she settles down in her deckchair...hordes of people arrive. With the unruly crowd comes noise, and mess, and chaos. Maybe w...(展开全部)

《女巫温妮》系列作者系澳大利亚著名儿童文学家瓦拉里•托马斯（著有多部儿童文学作品，广受全球小读者喜爱。 绘图作者为英国知名儿童画画家科奇•保罗。

1988 红房子图书奖(The Red House Children's Book Award)作品。 红房子图书奖是英国最负盛名的儿童图书奖之一，1980年，身为作家和图书馆员的帕特·托马森（Pat Thomson）开创了这个奖项，至今已有25年的历史，赞助商为红房子书友会，小读者亲自投票评选是其最大特色，他们习惯地称它是自己的“奥斯卡”图书大奖。 红房子奖依青少年不同年龄层次分三类设立（包括Books for Younger Children, Books for Younger Readers and Books for Older Readers），每年六月公布评选结果。

It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down: the fish turn venomous, bodies are red and raw, beyond the beach guns point out from the North s watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives, a French cartoonist determined to find...(展开全部)

西蒙•范•布伊 （Simon Van Booy，1975— ） ，英国小说家，出生于伦敦，在威尔士乡村和牛津长大。在美国经由一位英语教授介绍，爱上了惠特曼、爱默生等美国诗人的作品，并在另一位英语教授的鼓励下写诗和创作短篇小说。后来回到英国，辗转几所大学，获得MFA学 位。 已出版三本短篇小说集：出版于 二○○七年的《黑暗中的绽放》是他令人惊艳的处女作；出版于二○○九年的《爱，始于冬季》为他赢得弗兰克•奥康纳国际短篇小说奖；二○一五年，又出版了《偶然天才故事集》。他也创作长篇小说：二○一一年出版了《美，始于怀念》，二○一三年出版了《分离的幻象》。最新的作品是二○一七年出版的《父亲节》。 目前定居纽约布鲁克林。

DECEMBER 1962, THE WEST COUNTRY. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He's been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hope...(展开全部)

On the verge of giving up--anchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their lives--Van Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.