A Christmas Eve tradition becomes a saga of epic proportions when young Marie Stahlbaum's beloved Nutcracker defends her against the dreaded Mouse King's army. As Marie recovers after the battle, Godfather Drosselmeier relates Nutcracker's sad tale, and the compassionate girl sees the truth behind the toy-like veneer. This unabridged edition of Hoffmann's classic, The Nutcracke...(展开全部)

In Nutcracker, the premier children's book illustrator of our time adds his own magic to a story that has long enchanted children and grown-ups alike. Maurice Sendak created this illustrated version of Hoffmann's wonderful tale, basing his illustrations on the sets and costumes he designed for a dance production staged by the Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught betwee...(展开全部)

Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught betwee...(展开全部)

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” —The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to...(展开全部)

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” —The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to...(展开全部)

For nearly two hundred years, E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale of the Nutcracker has enchanted readers, inspired artists and composers, and delighted audiences around the world. In cities and towns everywhere, children thrill to annual performances of Tchaikovsky's classic Christmas ballet about a girl named Marie who helps a wooden nutcracker defeat an evil army of mice, and is rewarded...(展开全部)

托尔·塞德勒美国著名儿童文学作家，出生于美国新罕布什尔州，目前定居纽约。擅长用细腻的笔触描述动物的故事。他的作品《刻薄的玛格丽特》（Mean Margaret）曾入围美国国家图书奖。《一只老鼠的传奇》作为被评论家誉为与《夏洛的网》齐名的作品，不仅被美国《出版者周刊》评为年度最佳图书，还曾被著名的奥古斯堡木偶剧院改编成木偶剧。 本书插图绘者是由美国著名设计师和童书插画家弗雷德·马塞利诺。马塞利诺以细腻丰富的写实画风著称于世，创作了许多经典作品，其代表作是凯迪克大奖作品《穿靴子的猫》，以及《坚定的锡兵》《我是鳄鱼》等。《一只老鼠的传奇》是他开始童书插画生涯的第一部作品。

Although young Montague Mad-Rat lives in--or rather, under--New York City, he know very few rats besides his mother, who makes hats, his father, who builds mud castles, and his globe-trotting Aunt Elizabeth. But Montague's life takes an abrupt turn for the eventful the stormy day he meets Isabel Moberly-Rat on his way home from Central Park. Home, for Montague, is an old sewer ...(展开全部)

托尔·塞德勒美国著名儿童文学作家，出生于美国新罕布什尔州，目前定居纽约。擅长用细腻的笔触描述动物的故事。他的作品《刻薄的玛格丽特》（Mean Margaret）曾入围美国国家图书奖。《一只老鼠的传奇》作为被评论家誉为与《夏洛的网》齐名的作品，不仅被美国《出版者周刊》评为年度最佳图书，还曾被著名的奥古斯堡木偶剧院改编成木偶剧。 本书插图绘者是由美国著名设计师和童书插画家弗雷德·马塞利诺。马塞利诺以细腻丰富的写实画风著称于世，创作了许多经典作品，其代表作是凯迪克大奖作品《穿靴子的猫》，以及《坚定的锡兵》《我是鳄鱼》等。《一只老鼠的传奇》是他开始童书插画生涯的第一部作品。