彼得·史比尔 1927年出生于荷兰阿姆斯特丹，1950年移民美国，曾从事广告业，后投身于图画书的创作。他为儿童创作了30多本图画书，擅长以铅笔、墨水和水彩作画，明快流畅，许多作品都非常注重细节和历史的考据，满足各年龄层读者多重、无穷的乐趣。 其作品《诺亚方舟》（Noah’s Ark）获得了1978年“凯迪克奖”和“克里斯多佛奖”，《在寒冷的夜晚狐狸出走了》（The Fox Went Out Out a Chilly Night）获得了“波士顿全球号角奖”。

彼得·史比尔 1927年出生于荷兰阿姆斯特丹，1950年移民美国，曾从事广告业，后投身于图画书的创作。他为儿童创作了30多本图画书，擅长以铅笔、墨水和水彩作画，明快流畅，许多作品都非常注重细节和历史的考据，满足各年龄层读者多重、无穷的乐趣。 其作品《诺亚方舟》（Noah’s Ark）获得了1978年“凯迪克奖”和“克里斯多佛奖”，《在寒冷的夜晚狐狸出走了》（The Fox Went Out Out a Chilly Night）获得了“波士顿全球号角奖”。

The circus is in town! Come join in the fun as Caldecott Medalist Peter Spier creates a circus like no other, in this exuberant celebration of the wonders of the big top. "A treat!" -- Kirkus Reviews "This premier illustrator offers a glorious new treat....children will undoubtedly want to pore over it." -- School Library Journal

The circus is in town! Come join in the fun as Caldecott Medalist Peter Spier creates a circus like no other, in this exuberant celebration of the wonders of the big top. "A treat!" -- Kirkus Reviews "This premier illustrator offers a glorious new treat....children will undoubtedly want to pore over it." -- School Library Journal

Caldecott-winning illustrator Peter Spier presents clowns, jugglers, acrobats, elephants, dogs--and even a hippopotamus--that appear under the big top. Full color.

Caldecott-winning illustrator Peter Spier presents clowns, jugglers, acrobats, elephants, dogs--and even a hippopotamus--that appear under the big top. Full color.

It rains It rains all over town, pattering congenially on windowpanes and rooftops. From indoors, a child watches, listens, and feels a delicious coziness. It rains on the fields, the hills, the ponds. The streams and brooks, the rivers and seas, surge and swell exuberantly. Tomorrow there will be warm mud to play in, and puddles, and in the puddles "pieces of sky." It pours.T...(展开全部)

It rains It rains all over town, pattering congenially on windowpanes and rooftops. From indoors, a child watches, listens, and feels a delicious coziness. It rains on the fields, the hills, the ponds. The streams and brooks, the rivers and seas, surge and swell exuberantly. Tomorrow there will be warm mud to play in, and puddles, and in the puddles "pieces of sky." It pours.T...(展开全部)

The master of the new "noir," Dennis Lehane delivers a shattering tale of evil, depravity, and justice that captures the dark realism of Boston's gritty blue-collar streets. Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why a former client, a perky woman in love with life, could, within six months, jump naked from a Boston landmark--the final fall in a spiral of self-destru...(展开全部)

Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is a book that is free from sentimentality yet manages to reveal the magnitude of the human suffering caused by the atom bomb. The life...(展开全部)