Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies ? Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Hélène identifies strongly with Jane's tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this w...(展开全部)

Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies ? Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Hélène identifies strongly with Jane's tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this w...(展开全部)

Night is falling, bedtime is looming and playtime is nearly over ...but brave King Jack is more than a match for dragons and terrible beasties. This magical make-believe adventure, illustrated by picture book star Helen Oxenbury, is the perfect bedtime tale for little boys and brave children everywhere.

彼得·本特利 （Peter Bently） 著有十几本儿童绘本，其中《阿猫喂喂！》获得2011年的罗尔德·达尔风趣奖。 曾在全世界十所各不相同的学校里读书，后在牛津大学修习多种语言。当了爸爸后不久，他就开始为孩子们写作。如今彼得和妻子露西和他们的孩子西奥和塔拉住在德文郡，靠近荒野和大海。 海伦·奥克森伯里 （Helen Oxenbury） 一代又一代孩子为她创作的插图着迷。海伦曾创作插画的绘本《我们要去捉狗熊》《三只小狼和大坏猪》两次获得凯特格林纳威奖，并获四次凯特格林纳威奖提名。由她绘制插画的1999年版的《爱丽丝漫游仙境》在凯特格林纳威奖五十周年之际被选进得奖作品Top10。得过雀巢聪明豆儿童图书奖。海伦和丈夫约翰·伯宁罕一同住在伦敦。

An irresistible knights-and-dragons fantasy for the very young, in the tradition of Oxenbury's enduring classic We're Going on a Bear Hunt Jack, Zack, and baby Caspar spend all day fighting dragons in their homemade fort. But when Sir Zack and Caspar are taken inside for bed, King Jack - alone on his throne - finds himself feeling a bit less brave . . . especially when he h...(展开全部)

玛吉·尼尔森 美国作家、诗人、学者。曾获麦克阿瑟“天才奖”、美国国家书评人协会奖、安迪·沃霍尔基金会艺术作家奖等奖项。 著有《红》《简》《爱》等作品。

A new entry in Soft Skull's ShortLit series, Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane. Though officially unsolved, Jane's murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders near the University of Michigan in the late 1960s. Nelson was born a few years after Jane's death, and the narrative is suffused with the long ...(展开全部)

玛吉·尼尔森 美国作家、诗人、学者。曾获麦克阿瑟“天才奖”、美国国家书评人协会奖、安迪·沃霍尔基金会艺术作家奖等奖项。 著有《红》《简》《爱》等作品。

A new entry in Soft Skull's ShortLit series, Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane. Though officially unsolved, Jane's murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders near the University of Michigan in the late 1960s. Nelson was born a few years after Jane's death, and the narrative is suffused with the long ...(展开全部)

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa. In segregated St. Louis sometime after...(展开全部)