A string of paper dolls go on a fantastical adventure through the house and out into the garden. They soon escape the clutches of the toy dinosaur and the snapping jaws of the oven-glove crocodile, but then a very real pair of scissors threatens. A stunning, rhythmical story of childhood, memory and the power of imagination from the author of THE GRUFFALO, and new illustrating ...(展开全部)

查丽·恩·霍姆博格（Charlie N. Holmberg） 美国新锐奇幻作家，生于盐湖城。曾在杨百翰大学学习英语文学并辅修编辑学。她的处女作《纸魔法》是她“魔法”系列中的第一部，紧接着便是该系列光怪陆离的第二部作品《玻璃魔法》和第三部作品《全能魔法》。在她平日没有进行创作时，她是一位自由编辑，并且是一位《星际迷航》粉丝。现在她和文夫、孩子住在爱荷华州，希望未来有一天能养一只狗。

查丽·恩·霍姆博格（Charlie N. Holmberg） 美国新锐奇幻作家，生于盐湖城。曾在杨百翰大学学习英语文学并辅修编辑学。她的处女作《纸魔法》是她“魔法”系列中的第一部，紧接着便是该系列光怪陆离的第二部作品《玻璃魔法》和第三部作品《全能魔法》。在她平日没有进行创作时，她是一位自由编辑，并且是一位《星际迷航》粉丝。现在她和文夫、孩子住在爱荷华州，希望未来有一天能养一只狗。

Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic…forever. Yet the spells Ceony learns under the stran...(展开全部)

The animals’ homes are disappearing. Tree by tree, the forest is being cut down. Clues! There must be clues. For instance, look—there is a mysterious bear carrying an ax! But what would a bear want with so many trees? Perhaps the discarded paper airplanes littering the forest floor have a story to tell? Oliver Jeffers’ quirky, childlike humor and lovable illustrations are in f...(展开全部)

The animals’ homes are disappearing. Tree by tree, the forest is being cut down. Clues! There must be clues. For instance, look—there is a mysterious bear carrying an ax! But what would a bear want with so many trees? Perhaps the discarded paper airplanes littering the forest floor have a story to tell? Oliver Jeffers’ quirky, childlike humor and lovable illustrations are in f...(展开全部)

Its three protagonists--Anne Welles, the uptight-but-full-of-a-strange-yearning New England beauty; Neely O'Hara, the Judy Garland á clef; and Jennifer North, who is sort of the Marilyn Monroe á clef and also sort of the Brigitte Bardot á clef but mainly sort of the least realized character in the book--all spend most of the novel with what they want excruciatingly just o...(展开全部)

Therip-roaring and hilarious memoir from Stanley Johnson—the father of London mayor Boris Johnson—begins with a loud bang whenStanley's father, an RAF pilot in World War II, crash-lands a Wellington bomber on a Devon airfield. A few years later Stanley's parents buy a sheep farm on nearby Exmoor, where Stanley does much of his growing up. Stanley would keep his links with this ...(展开全部)