Dave Mitchell is fourteen and growing up in the midst of the variety and excitement of New York City. In this quiet, reflective, and humorous story of a boy's journey toward adulthood, Emily Neville captures the flavor of one kind of New York boyhood -- the sights and sounds of Gramercy Park, Coney Island, the Fulton Fish Market, the Bronx Zoo, the stickball games played in cit...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 My father is always talking about how a dog can be very educational for a boy. This is one reason I got a cat. Dave Mitchell and his father yell at each other a lot, and whenever the fighting starts, Dave's mother gets an asthma attack. That's when Dave storms out of the house. Then Dave meets Tom, a strange boy who helps him rescue Cat. It isn't long before Cat intro...(展开全部)

安东尼·布朗 1946年出生在英格兰的雪菲尔，自小喜爱画画与说故事。十六岁进入里兹艺术学院（Leeds College of Art）学习，在美术馆里接触英国超现实主义画家法兰斯·培根（Francis Bacon）的作品。十七岁那年，父亲猝然离世，在安东尼·布朗心里造成极大的冲击。艺术学院毕业后，安东尼·布朗参加了圣巴瑟洛莫（St.Bartholomow's Hospital）提供的医学绘画课程，课程结束后，进入曼彻斯特皇家医院担任人体解剖图的绘制工作。从1971年开始，他为世界著名的Gordon Fraser卡片公司设计贺卡，深受大众喜爱之后，他又运用熟练的插画技巧制作图画书，于1976年出版了第一本图画书《穿越魔镜》（Through the Magic Mirror）,由此开启了图画书创作的生涯。他自写自画的《大猩猩》（Gorilla）、《动物园...(展开全部)

安东尼·布朗 1946年出生在英格兰的雪菲尔，自小喜爱画画与说故事。十六岁进入里兹艺术学院（Leeds College of Art）学习，在美术馆里接触英国超现实主义画家法兰斯·培根（Francis Bacon）的作品。十七岁那年，父亲猝然离世，在安东尼·布朗心里造成极大的冲击。艺术学院毕业后，安东尼·布朗参加了圣巴瑟洛莫（St.Bartholomow's Hospital）提供的医学绘画课程，课程结束后，进入曼彻斯特皇家医院担任人体解剖图的绘制工作。从1971年开始，他为世界著名的Gordon Fraser卡片公司设计贺卡，深受大众喜爱之后，他又运用熟练的插画技巧制作图画书，于1976年出版了第一本图画书《穿越魔镜》（Through the Magic Mirror）,由此开启了图画书创作的生涯。他自写自画的《大猩猩》（Gorilla）、《动物园...(展开全部)

一本爱意浓浓的小画册，绘制于1965年，至今仍然是爱人们互赠礼物的小甜点。罗密欧可以把它送给茱丽叶，查理布朗可以把它送给史努比，better把它送给bad，隔着山川河流，两个小时的时差，还有32天的见面，你可以把它送给你身边最特别的人。 我喜欢你 你也喜欢我 "You know how to be silly That's why I like you Boy are you ever silly I never met anybody sillier than me till I met you." "I like you because you know when it's time to stop being silly Maybe day after tomorrow... Maybe never Oops, too late, it's a...(展开全部)

Best-selling picture book creator Mo Willems isleaps into the early reader arena with the Elephant and Piggie series.Not surprisingly,the books are hilarious, charming, and speak directly to kids. The books feature two lovable and funny characters: an optimistic (and often reckless) pig and a cautious, pessimistic elephant. Children who sat on their parents’ laps to hav...(展开全部)

What is poverty? What is inequality? How are they connected? How are they reproduced? How might they be overcome? Why should we try? This book—an ethnography of inequality—addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, they are written to be read individually, but have been arranged to be read as a totality and in sequence. Each aims to accomplish two things: first, t...(展开全部)

At the start of bestseller Clark's riveting new novel of suspense, Kay Lansing recalls her first visit as a six-year-old to the Carrington estate in Englewood, N.J., where her father worked as a landscaper. Twenty-two years later, she returns to ask the present owner, Peter Carrington, if she can use the mansion for a fund-raiser. The two fall madly in love, and after a whirlwi...(展开全部)