艾伦·贝克尔（Aaron Becker） 曾经历许多难忘的旅程，在日本乡村居住过，也在东非生活过，还曾去往瑞典、塔西提岛等地徒步旅行，寻找灵感。最近，还从旧金山湾去往马萨诸塞州的阿姆斯特市，进行了一次探险旅行。 在成为绘本作家之前，贝克尔是一名电影动画设计师、影视绘景师，参与制作的电影有《极地特快》《怪兽屋》等。《不可思议的旅程》是他的第一本绘本，展现出丰富的想象力和深厚的动画制作功底，一经出版便荣登《纽约时报》畅销书榜，并荣获《纽约时报》年度最佳绘本，以及美国凯迪克大奖。目前和妻子、女儿、一只懒猫生活在阿姆斯特市。他最喜欢的事情便是想象，在想象的国度，他可以画一扇秘密的大门和一盏盏充满魔力的彩灯。

Through compelling reminiscences of his grandfather's life in America and Japan, Allen Say gives us a poignant acount of a family's unique cross-cultural experience. He warmly conveys his own love for his two countries, and the strong and constant desire to be in both places at once.

A picture book masterpiece from Caldecott medal winner Allen Say now available in paperback! Lyrical, breathtaking, splendid—words used to describe Allen Say’s Grandfather’s Journey when it was first published. At once deeply personal yet expressing universally held emotions, this tale of one man’s love for two countries and his constant desire to be in both places captured re...(展开全部)

In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end 18 years of Conservative government. He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers have shaped the nation's course as profoundly as Blair during his ten years in power, and his achievements and his legacy will be debated for years to come....(展开全部)

图腾意志的继承者，强大的布拉格地下党，神秘的教会，阿澄从稚嫩走向成熟，在帕西里的引导下，和至死卜离的伙伴一起解开罪恶的图腾之谜。历史还是战争？是宿命还是罪恶？不走下去的路没有人知道……

With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned.

图腾意志的继承者，强大的布拉格地下党，神秘的教会，阿澄从稚嫩走向成熟，在帕西里的引导下，和至死卜离的伙伴一起解开罪恶的图腾之谜。历史还是战争？是宿命还是罪恶？不走下去的路没有人知道……

在线阅读本书 Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not successful, he decides instead to marry the beautiful but shallow Agnes, agreeing to abandon his writing and become a schoolmaster at a second-rate public school...(展开全部)

From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough comes the inspiring, enthralling—and until now, untold—story of the American painters, writers, sculptors, and doctors who journeyed to Paris between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work, fell in love with the city, and changed America with what they achieved. After risking the hazardous journey across the...(展开全部)

Liberia, 1935: "The great majority of all mosquitoes caught in Monrovia are of a species known to carry yellow fever." The U.S. Army map of the country's interior filled in the blanks with the word "Cannibals." "Have you thought of the leeches?" someone asked Greene. He went anyway, into the forest, on foot, village to village. Be glad. The book is just plain great.