绘本作家、插画家，1973 年出生于日本神奈川县。吉竹伸介小时候是个怕生、内向的孩子，觉得“自己做什么都不行”，后来因为想当一名制作电影道具或玩偶的手工艺人，学了筑波大学艺术研究科的综合造型专业。毕业后，他进入一家游戏公司，为了缓解压力，常在工作间隙画插画，30 岁时出版了自己第一本插画集。 在成为两个孩子的爸爸之后，吉竹伸介 40 岁时出版了第一部绘本作品《这是苹果吗也许是吧》，孩子能从中感受到“自由想象”的乐趣，一个人也可以乐呵呵地读下去。这部绘本获得 3000 位日本一线店员评选的“MOE 绘本书店大奖”第一名、12 万日本小学生评选的“我喜欢的童书”总决选第三名、日本产经儿童出版文化奖·美术奖。由此，吉竹伸介成为绘本界备受瞩目的作家。 此后，他又陆续出版了《好无聊啊好无聊》《做个机器人假装是我》《后来呢后来怎么了》《脱不下来啦》《揉一揉啊捏一...(展开全部)

达洛芙·伊普卡（1917— ）美国著名的艺术家、插画家、绘本创作家。出生于佛蒙特州，自小在艺术氛围浓厚的格林威治村长大。达洛芙的父亲是著名的雕刻家威廉·佐拉屈，母亲是艺术大师玛格丽特·佐拉屈，他们都是美国现代艺术史上重要的人物。 二十一岁时，达洛芙便得以在现代艺术博物馆举行她的第一场个人展览。她的部分作品也被永久地收藏在大都会艺术博物馆、惠特尼博物馆和布鲁克林博物馆等处。1940年代是达洛芙事业的转折期，当时一家纽约出版社询问她是否有意愿与玛格丽特·怀兹·布朗共同创作绘本《小渔夫》，她本来几乎要放弃写童书和画插图，在事业挣扎中的她把握住了这次机会。1945年《小渔夫》出版后，达洛芙开始了长达六十年的绘本创作。达洛芙是一位多产的绘本创作家。六十年间，她创作了近四十本儿童绘本。 1972年，达洛芙·伊普卡接受了缅因州政府颁发的“在艺术和人类领域对缅因州的...(展开全部)

Look closer. Grant Snider's beautiful debut picture book explores the wonders—and colors—of nighttime. For night is not just black and white. Ending in colors yet unseen, and a night of sweet dreams, this lilting lullaby is sure to comfort those drifting off to sleep. With luminous art as spare and glowing as the moon, and lyrical text that reads like a friend leading the way t...(展开全部)

Explores the transformation humans undergo when they do metaphysics. Author Michael Gelven suggests that thinking metaphysically transforms us, and consequently the nature of metaphysics it self is transformational, Using concrete existential phenomena such as the learning process, how children mature into adults, and how fear can develop into courage, he establishes an underst...(展开全部)

Elderly widow Addie Moore pays a visit to her aging widower neighbor, Louis Waters. They were never close, just knew each other peripherally, which makes the reason for this social call all the more intriguing. Addie would like to know if Louis is interested in sleeping with her. Now, now, this scenario was conceived by the late, great Kent Haruf—Our Souls at Night is no 50 Sha...(展开全部)

A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, a...(展开全部)

Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. 'Libraries', he says, 'have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic'. In this personal, deliber...(展开全部)

Elderly widow Addie Moore pays a visit to her aging widower neighbor, Louis Waters. They were never close, just knew each other peripherally, which makes the reason for this social call all the more intriguing. Addie would like to know if Louis is interested in sleeping with her. Now, now, this scenario was conceived by the late, great Kent Haruf—Our Souls at Night is no 50 Sha...(展开全部)

A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, a...(展开全部)

Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. Helen Vendler has become one of our most trusted companions in reading poetry. Among critics today she has an unrivaled ability to show--lucidly and invitingly--just what a ...(展开全部)