From the rising star of children's picture books comes the magical tale of friendship and loneliness, a boy and a penguin. There once was a boy! and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they set out in his row...(展开全部)

From the rising star of children's picture books comes the magical tale of friendship and loneliness, a boy and a penguin. There once was a boy! and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they set out in his row...(展开全部)

斯塔兹•特克尔（Studs Terkel，1912-2008） 1985年，获得美国新闻界最高荣誉普利策奖； 1997年，克林顿夫妇亲自为他颁发当年的美国国家人文勋章； 1999年，获得美国新闻界殊荣乔治•波克奖； 2004年，获得美国的最高荣誉林肯勋章； 2006年，被授予戴顿文学和平奖终身成就奖。 美国“口述实录体”开创者、历史学界泰斗、11部口述历史专著作家。 特克尔将交谈与倾听作为毕生事业。他花了82年，选择那些从未有过话语权的人，倾听他们的生活和梦想。迄今为止，还没有人比他做得更好。他因此被尊称为“美国普通民众心声的记录者”。 此外，特克尔在芝加哥WFMT电台主持一档以他名字命名的广播节目长达45年，是美国家喻户晓的文化名人。

Award-winning picture book about an unlikely friendship against all odds. International best-seller and Blue Peter Book of the Year 2006 -- now in gorgeous miniature gift edition. There once was a boy! and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to ...(展开全部)

Award-winning picture book about an unlikely friendship against all odds. International best-seller and Blue Peter Book of the Year 2006 -- now in gorgeous miniature gift edition. There once was a boy! and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to ...(展开全部)

斯塔兹•特克尔（Studs Terkel，1912-2008） 1985年，获得美国新闻界最高荣誉普利策奖； 1997年，克林顿夫妇亲自为他颁发当年的美国国家人文勋章； 1999年，获得美国新闻界殊荣乔治•波克奖； 2004年，获得美国的最高荣誉林肯勋章； 2006年，被授予戴顿文学和平奖终身成就奖。 美国“口述实录体”开创者、历史学界泰斗、11部口述历史专著作家。 特克尔将交谈与倾听作为毕生事业。他花了82年，选择那些从未有过话语权的人，倾听他们的生活和梦想。迄今为止，还没有人比他做得更好。他因此被尊称为“美国普通民众心声的记录者”。 此外，特克尔在芝加哥WFMT电台主持一档以他名字命名的广播节目长达45年，是美国家喻户晓的文化名人。

First published in 1958, ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ achieved instant critical acclaim and helped to establish Alan Sillitoe as one of the greatest British writers of his generation. The film of the novel, starring Albert Finney, transformed British cinema and was much imitated. This cult classic of working class life in post-war Nottingham follows the exploits of rebel...(展开全部)

Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present day. Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruption...(展开全部)

For thousands of years human beings have been losing their possessions and dumping their rubbish in the River Thames, making it the longest and most varied archaeological site in the world. For those in the know, the muddy stretches provide a tangible link with the past, a connection to the natural world, and an oasis of calm in a chaotic city. Lara Maiklem left the countryside...(展开全部)