Mo Willems (www.pigeonpresents.com), a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, has been awarded a Caldecott Honor on three occasions (for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity). Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! was also an inaugural inductee into the Indies Choice Pictu...(展开全部)

Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry, dra...(展开全部)

Bath History Tour offers a fascinating insight into the illustrious history of this beautiful city in Somerset. Author Jenny Knight guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how i

约翰·伯宁罕 1936年生于英国，12岁进入夏山学校就读，20岁进入伦敦中央艺术学院正式习画。他的第一本书《宝儿》（Borka）为他赢得了生平第一个英国图画书最高荣誉——凯特·格林纳威大奖（Kate Greenaway Medal）。从此之后，约翰·伯宁罕每年出版两本书，成为世界知名的图画书创作者，作品更获得“交织着现实与幻想之趣”的最高评价。之后他再度以《和甘伯伯去游河》（Mr. Gumpy’s Outing）拿下第二个凯特·格林纳威大奖，而他的《外公》（Grandpa）和《喂！下车！》（Oi!Get off our Train）已制作成颇受欢迎的动画影片。 《爱德华——世界上最恐怖的男孩》是约翰·伯宁罕创作于2006年的新作。在这本书里面，他继续关注孩子与大人的关系，与他的甘伯伯系列和莎莉系列等作品不同的是，让我们看到大人对孩子态度的改变，爱德华...(展开全部)

约翰·伯宁罕 1936年生于英国，12岁进入夏山学校就读，20岁进入伦敦中央艺术学院正式习画。他的第一本书《宝儿》（Borka）为他赢得了生平第一个英国图画书最高荣誉——凯特·格林纳威大奖（Kate Greenaway Medal）。从此之后，约翰·伯宁罕每年出版两本书，成为世界知名的图画书创作者，作品更获得“交织着现实与幻想之趣”的最高评价。之后他再度以《和甘伯伯去游河》（Mr. Gumpy’s Outing）拿下第二个凯特·格林纳威大奖，而他的《外公》（Grandpa）和《喂！下车！》（Oi!Get off our Train）已制作成颇受欢迎的动画影片。 《爱德华——世界上最恐怖的男孩》是约翰·伯宁罕创作于2006年的新作。在这本书里面，他继续关注孩子与大人的关系，与他的甘伯伯系列和莎莉系列等作品不同的是，让我们看到大人对孩子态度的改变，爱德华...(展开全部)

劳拉·埃尔·马基是France Inter电台的制作人和广播剧编剧，与纪尧姆·加利埃纳共同制作了广播节目《没坏处》。著有《赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯》和《与普鲁斯特共度假日》。此外，她也是一位电视剧编剧。 纪尧姆·加利埃纳自2005年起成为法兰西喜剧院的成员，他是一位喜剧演员、编剧和导演。2009年开始，他每周六在France Inter电台主持广播节目《没坏处》。

An interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and Shanghai, that follows the life of business tycoon Victor Sassoon. In this book, historian Rosemary Wakeman brings to life the frenzied, crowded streets, markets, ports, and banks of Bombay, London, and Shanghai. In the early twentieth century, these cities were a...(展开全部)

"What kind of person do I want my child to be?" There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, from discipline to nutrition. But in spite of this overwhelming amount of information, there is very little research-based advice for parents on how to raise their children to be well rounded and achieve their full potential, ...(展开全部)

An unprecedented overview of the early work of a preeminent 20th-century artist Diane Arbus (1923 1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time. This book is the definitive study ...(展开全部)

A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of hist...(展开全部)