This special new paperback edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years, bringing peace and joy back to the land. Featuring a fresh ne...(展开全部)

This special new paperback edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years, bringing peace and joy back to the land. Featuring a fresh ne...(展开全部)

Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.

This special new edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years, bringing peace and joy back to the land.

Hyman's meticulously researched illustrations bring Hodges' retelling of Edmund Spenser's 16th century poem to full realization. The glowing paintings and borders recall the religious art of Spenser's time while details in the picture evoke the earliest origins of the St. George island.

Two lovable hippos teach the meaning of friendship in five separate vignettes: "Split Pea Soup," "The Flying Machine," "The Tub," "The Mirror," "The Tooth."

Two lovable hippos teach the meaning of friendship in five separate vignettes: "Split Pea Soup," "The Flying Machine," "The Tub," "The Mirror," "The Tooth."

Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century b...(展开全部)

伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen . 美国著名导演、演员、作家。生于纽约布鲁克林，15岁起为报纸、广播撰写专栏，后成为喜剧演员，1969年正式开启导演生涯，以惊人的拍摄速度和数量著称，至今拍摄50多部影片，风格独树一帜。 . 他被称为“美国电影界唯一的知识分子”。19 77年凭 借《安妮·霍尔》包揽四项奥斯卡金像奖，从此蜚声国际。此后《开罗紫玫瑰》《汉娜姐妹》等作品均获奖无数。 . 史提格·比约克曼 Stig Bjorkman . 瑞典作家、导演、影评人。著有《伯格曼论伯格曼》、《冯提尔论冯提尔》等。其导演作品曾入围柏林电影节。2011年受伊莎贝拉·罗西里尼邀请，拍摄了《英格丽·褒曼口述实录》。

With thirty-five years of personal film-making behind him, Woody Allen is one of the most distinctive, uncompromising and accomplished of all American directors. One of the great practitioners of film comedy, Allen progressed from the slapstick of Take the Money and Run and Bananas, through the sophisticated Freudian one-liners and existential pratfalls of Annie Hall and Manhat...(展开全部)