Lachie MacLachlan, the generous hero of this enchanting tale, is the exception to the rule that the Scots are a thrifty lot. In his "wee house in the heather," Lachie lives with his family of twelve, and he welcomes to his hearth every weary traveler who passes by on a stormy night. "There's always room for one more," says Lachie, and how his grateful guests say a wonderful "th...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In this Scottish folk song, a generous family always has room for another person and invites in everyone who passes by.

Winner of the Caldecott Medal. Lachie MacLachlan, the generous hero of this enchanting tale, is the exception to the rule that the Scots are a thrifty lot. In his "wee house in the heather," where he lives with his family of twelve, he welcomes to his hearth every weary traveler who passes by on a stormy night. "There's always room for one more," says Lachie, and how his grate...(展开全部)

The team behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site returns with another fabulous book for bedtime! The dream train pulls into the station, and one by one the train cars are loaded: polar bears pack the reefer car with ice cream, elephants fill the tanker cars with paints, tortoises stock the auto rack with race cars, bouncy kangaroos stuff ...(展开全部)

It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ....(展开全部)

Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams" is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century--an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shock...(展开全部)

Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century - an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime. Suffused with the...(展开全部)

帕蒂·史密斯 Patti Smith，美国作家、表演家、视觉艺术家。她的创作天分首次展露于1970年代时，将诗作与摇滚乐所做的革命性结合。她录制了十二张专辑，其中《马群》被《滚石》杂志尊为史上最伟大的百张专辑之一。史密斯1973年在纽约高谭书店举办了自己的第 一个画展。 她的著作包括，获得了2010年美国国家图书奖的《只是孩子》，以及《维特》（Witt）、《空想》（Babel）、《白日梦》（Woolgathering）、《珊瑚海》（The Coral Sea）、《纯真预言》（Auguries of Innocence）和《时光列车》（M Train）。2005年，法国文化部颁发给史密斯艺术与文学司令勋位（Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres），这是法国政府颁发给艺术家的最高荣誉。2007年，她被列入摇滚名人堂。史密斯与...(展开全部)

帕蒂·史密斯 Patti Smith，美国作家、表演家、视觉艺术家。她的创作天分首次展露于1970年代时，将诗作与摇滚乐所做的革命性结合。她录制了十二张专辑，其中《马群》被《滚石》杂志尊为史上最伟大的百张专辑之一。史密斯1973年在纽约高谭书店举办了自己的第 一个画展。 她的著作包括，获得了2010年美国国家图书奖的《只是孩子》，以及《维特》（Witt）、《空想》（Babel）、《白日梦》（Woolgathering）、《珊瑚海》（The Coral Sea）、《纯真预言》（Auguries of Innocence）和《时光列车》（M Train）。2005年，法国文化部颁发给史密斯艺术与文学司令勋位（Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres），这是法国政府颁发给艺术家的最高荣誉。2007年，她被列入摇滚名人堂。史密斯与...(展开全部)

The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask....(展开全部)