"The Blue Fox is a magical novel."--Bjork The year is 1883, and the stark Icelandic landscape is the backdrop for this spellbinding fable that is part mystery, part fairy tale. The fates of a priest, a naturalist, and a young woman with Down syndrome are intrinsically bound and gradually, surprisingly unraveled. "Sjon's fable...describes its world with brilliant, precise, concr...(展开全部)

Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter, an elusive, enigmatic fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest. At the edge of the hunter's territory, a naturalist struggles to build a life for his charge, a young woman with Down syndrome whom he had rescued from a shipwreck years before. By the end of Sjón's slender, spellbinding fable of a novel, none of their liv...(展开全部)

科拉莉•比克福德-史密斯：插画家、图书设计师，现在也是一位作家，毕业于英国雷丁大学印刷与图像传播学专业。她有很高的文学修养，所设计的图书广受赞誉，曾获得英国封面设计学院奖、《纽约时报》《Vogue》《卫报》等推荐，尤其是布封精装的“企鹅经典”系列，引领了图书装帧界的复古风。

From an award-winning designer comes a beautifully illustrated children’s story, a modern day classic that speaks to all ages. Once there was a Fox who lived in a deep, dense forest. For as long as Fox could remember, his only friend had been Star, who lit the forest paths each night. But then one night Star was not there, and Fox had to face the forest all alone and learns to...(展开全部)

The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Detective Lew Archer, but that was before the bodies began piling up. Suddenly, Archer find himself smack in the middle of a decades-long mystery of a bril...(展开全部)

Hattie the Hen spots danger -- but the goose and the pig and the sheep and the horse and the cow don't seem to care Young children will enjoy happy shivers of anticipation as this cumulative tale builds, and they'll be delighted by the final surprise, when everyone sees that what Hattie has been saying is true

King of the barnyard, Chanticleer struts about all day. When a fox bursts into his domain, dupes him into crowing, and then grabs him in a viselike grip, Chanticleer must do some quick thinking to save himself and his barnyard kingdom. Winner, 1959 Caldecott MedalNotable Children's Books of 1940-1970 (ALA)Winner, 1992 Kerlan Award

King of the barnyard, Chanticleer struts about all day. When a fox bursts into his domain, dupes him into crowing, and then grabs him in a viselike grip, Chanticleer must do some quick thinking to save himself and his barnyard kingdom. Winner, 1959 Caldecott MedalNotable Children s Books of 1940–1970 (ALA)Winner, 1992 Kerlan Award

King of the barnyard, Chanticleer struts about all day. When a fox bursts into his domain, dupes him into crowing, and then grabs him in a viselike grip, Chanticleer must do some quick thinking to save himself and his barnyard kingdom.