Nau cannot remember a time when she was not one with the world around her: with the fast breeze, the green grass, the high clouds, and the endless blue sky. But her greatest joy is to descend from her little spit of land to the sea, where the whales gather each morning, gaily spouting rainbows. Then, one day, she finds a man in the mist where a whale should be: Reu, who has tak...(展开全部)

A 2019 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K–12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council). From the moment life crawled out of the oceans and onto land, to when our primate ancestors climbed down from the trees, the history of Planet Earth is filled with incredible stories. This beautifully illustrated guide explores some of the most excit...(展开全部)

Step back in time to discover how crocodiles were once warm-blooded and how snakes had legs and burrowed underground. Meet terrifying giant birds, and tiny elephants living on islands. From the moment life crawled out of the oceans and onto land, to when our primate ancestors climbed down from the trees, the history of Planet Earth is filled with incredible stories. This beauti...(展开全部)

Step back in time to discover how crocodiles were once warm-blooded and how snakes had legs and burrowed underground. Meet terrifying giant birds, and tiny elephants living on islands. From the moment life crawled out of the oceans and onto land, to when our primate ancestors climbed down from the trees, the history of Planet Earth is filled with incredible stories. This beauti...(展开全部)

迈克尔·莫尔普戈(1943--)，英国当代著名作家，尤以在儿童文学方面的创作成就而蜚声英国文坛，多次摘得童书奖项，其中包括于2000年获得的英国儿童文学桂冠奖。 莫尔普戈自1975年开始发表小说，截止目前已出版九十多部作品，且被翻译成二十多种文字。 《健介的王国》是其创作的一部寓意深刻的儿童历险小说，享有当代版《鲁滨孙飘流记》的盛誉。该书曾于2000击败《哈利·波特与麾法石》，荣获英国惟一由孩子们投票选出的童书奖。

In the years before the Second World War, a man throws a statue of the crucified Christ over a waterfall. Later, in Hitler's trenches, he loses his arms to an enemy grenade. The blasphemer, screaming in agony, presided over by Satan, who pours a cup of gall into his open mouth, is portrayed amid the flames of Hell in a painting by the parish priest that is mounted on a calvary ...(展开全部)

When the moon disappears from the sky, the world is turned upside down, and artificial moons only help for a little while. In the meantime, one boy has found the real moon, and slowly helps him heal. They become inseparable companions, but when the world needs the moon to return home, the boy (reluctantly at first) helps the moon remember how to find his way back into the night...(展开全部)

赫伯特•乔治•威尔斯，（Herbert George Wells）英国科幻作家、政治家、历史学家。与凡尔纳并称科幻小说之父，被誉为科幻界的莎士比亚。 威尔斯开创了时间旅行、外星人入侵、太空歌剧、反乌托邦等等大部分现代科幻小说的主流话题。其作品的高度真实性曾在美国引起巨大恐慌，导致120万人离家出逃。 威尔斯以科幻小说闻名，影响力却远超科幻界，列宁、斯大林、罗斯福都曾与他会面长谈，丘吉尔更受其影响，调整执政思想。 威尔斯从最新的科学技术入手，不但展示了未来科技的神奇，更反思了技术给人类带来的负面效应。 其后继者阿道司•赫胥黎、扎米亚京、乔治•奥威尔、分别创作了《美丽新世界》《我们》《一九八四》等不朽之作。

From the author of THE TIME MACHINE comes a different kind of futuristic adventure. Near the end of the nineteenth century, Graham falls into an ageless trance. He awakens at the dawn of the twenty-second century. A Council rules the world. They began simply as trustees of a large financial estate, but their snowballing wealth and power, over the course of two centuries, render...(展开全部)

Where does the wind go when it stops? When a little boy asks this question at the end of a happy day, his mother explains that the wind does not stop-it blows away to make the trees dance somewhere else. Reassuringly, she tells him that nothing ever ends, it simply begins in another place or in another way. Rain goes back into the clouds to create new storms, waves fold back...(展开全部)