爱莎·贝斯蔻 生于瑞典斯德哥尔摩，是瑞典最具代表性的绘本女作家，在瑞典儿童文学领域有着举足轻重的位置。在她50多年的创作生涯中，共出版了40部作品，其中大部分作品已有百年历史，陪伴瑞典乃至全世界的孩子度过最美好的童年时光。爱莎·贝斯蔻的作品中，最鲜明的元素是“自然”。她把一草一木刻画得惟妙惟肖，给人一种身临其境的感觉。时至今日，她的作品经历了一代代人的传播与收藏，广受世界各国读者的肯定。

This delightful autumn story describes the woodland adventures of two acorn children who get carried away by the blustery autumn wind. Mr Squirrel and Hazel, the youngest Hazelnut child, go off in search of them and encounter a grumpy troll and the Chestnut boys along the way.

柯薇·巴可维斯，基于1928年7月28日生于捷克共和国的布拉格，而后她在布拉格应用艺术学院（Academy of Applied Arts）的艾弥儿·斐拉（Emil Filla）教授门下求学，专攻自由图像艺术、绘画、概念艺术及书籍，并于1952年毕业。在1961年到2000年间，她举办了近五十场个人画展，并于60年代开始发展物理立体艺术品的绘本，她的大型绘画和平面雕刻在世界各艺术馆和画廊展出，著作更被译成多种文字在各国出版。 50岁时她开始儿童插图创作，她最先画的，是一些格林童话和安徒生童话。后来，她将创作方向转向绘本，将此种媒体加以发挥，使其能与孩子产生互动。她的绘本多次获得各种国际奖项，包括1983年布拉迪斯拉发的金苹果奖（The Golden Apple at Bratislava），1988年巴塞罗纳卡泰罗尼亚插画奖最高奖（The Catal...(展开全部)

An earthy and beautiful collection of four stories that celebrate the seasons, nature, and life, from award-winning author-illustrator Phoebe Wahl. Little Witch Hazel is a tiny witch who lives in the forest, helping creatures big and small. She's a midwife, an intrepid explorer, a hard worker and a kind friend. In this four-season volume, Little Witch Hazel rescues an orphaned ...(展开全部)

An earthy and beautiful collection of four stories that celebrate the seasons, nature, and life, from award-winning author-illustrator Phoebe Wahl. Little Witch Hazel is a tiny witch who lives in the forest, helping creatures big and small. She's a midwife, an intrepid explorer, a hard worker and a kind friend. In this four-season volume, Little Witch Hazel rescues an orphaned ...(展开全部)

伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen . 美国著名导演、演员、作家。生于纽约布鲁克林，15岁起为报纸、广播撰写专栏，后成为喜剧演员，1969年正式开启导演生涯，以惊人的拍摄速度和数量著称，至今拍摄50多部影片，风格独树一帜。 . 他被称为“美国电影界唯一的知识分子”。19 77年凭 借《安妮·霍尔》包揽四项奥斯卡金像奖，从此蜚声国际。此后《开罗紫玫瑰》《汉娜姐妹》等作品均获奖无数。 . 史提格·比约克曼 Stig Bjorkman . 瑞典作家、导演、影评人。著有《伯格曼论伯格曼》、《冯提尔论冯提尔》等。其导演作品曾入围柏林电影节。2011年受伊莎贝拉·罗西里尼邀请，拍摄了《英格丽·褒曼口述实录》。

With thirty-five years of personal film-making behind him, Woody Allen is one of the most distinctive, uncompromising and accomplished of all American directors. One of the great practitioners of film comedy, Allen progressed from the slapstick of Take the Money and Run and Bananas, through the sophisticated Freudian one-liners and existential pratfalls of Annie Hall and Manhat...(展开全部)

In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, ob...(展开全部)

Review 'It's clear from the first page that this is prize-winning stuff... Being a truthful writer, Jones sees nothing neither his heroes nor his villains in black and white. His is a bold inquiry into the way that we construct and repair our communities, and ourselves, with stories old and new' (The Times ) 'In this dazzling story-within-a-story, Jones has created a microcosm...(展开全部)

'You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.' Bougainville. 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda's...(展开全部)