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    適讀人群 :9歲及以上                                   “哈利·波特”係列圖書自1997年在英國問世以來,迄今在全世界已發行三億多冊,2000年引進中國後,前六冊發行量達800萬冊。因此無論在世界還是在中國,“哈利·波特”都創造瞭齣版史上的奇跡。“哈利·波特”是一套既有暢銷效應也有常銷價值的兒童小說,從內容到藝術手法都具備瞭世界優秀兒童文學的潛質。其故事驚險離奇、神幻莫測;情節跌宕起伏、懸念叢生,從頭至尾充滿幽默。作者巧妙地將世界文學名著中所具有的美學品格集於一身,達到瞭想象豐富,情節緊湊,推理嚴密,人物刻畫深刻的藝術效果。同時它也是一套引導孩子們勇敢嚮上,見義勇為,善良待人的好作品。難能可貴的是,“哈利·波特”不僅深受孩子們的追捧,同時又為成人所喜愛。《哈利·波特與魔法石》是其中的一冊,一經推齣便受到廣大讀者的喜愛。                 
內容簡介
   This is the braille version of the international bestseller. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has reached a level of best-sellerdom never before achieved by a children's novel in the United States--The New York Times, April 1, 1999. If you haven't heard about this book, you've been asleep. Written for 8 to 12-year olds, "Harry Potter" appeals equally to adults. Who is Harry Potter? Harry Potter is an old-fashioned hero. He learns that choices show more of who one is than abilities. If you're looking for magic and adventure, read this book. Four volumes in braillle.
  《哈利·波特與魔法石》講的是一歲的哈利·波特失去父母後,神秘地齣現在姨夫姨母傢的門前。哈利在姨母傢飽受欺淩,度過瞭十年極其痛苦的日子。姨夫和姨母好似凶神惡煞,他們那混世魔王兒子達力:一個肥胖、嬌慣、欺負人的大石頭,更是經常對哈利拳腳相加。哈利的“房間”是位於樓梯口的一個又暗又小的碗櫥。十年來,從來沒有人為他過過生日。  但是在他十一歲生日那一天,一切都發生瞭變化,信使貓頭鷹帶來瞭一封神秘的信:邀請哈利去一個他——以及所有讀到哈利故事的人——會覺得永遠難忘的、不可思議的地方——霍格襖茨魔法學校。  在魔法學校,哈利不僅找著瞭朋友,學會瞭空中飛行,騎著一把型號為光輪2000色飛天掃帚打魁地氣球,還得到瞭一件隱形衣。他發現那裏的一切——從上課到吃飯到睡覺都充滿瞭魔力,但是一塊魔石齣現瞭,它與哈利的命運息息相關。     
作者簡介
   J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter series of seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have sold more than 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than 200 territories, translated into 74 languages, and have been turned into eight blockbuster films.  
J.K. 羅琳為英國女作傢,是風靡全球的《哈利·波特》係列叢書的作者. 共為七冊《哈利·波特》小說在全球範圍售齣4.5億冊,被改編成8部電影,譯成74種語言。羅琳憑著哈利·波特的魔力榮登福布斯的10億富翁排行榜。羅琳也是“10億富豪俱樂部”中少見的英國女性、少見的作傢,是世界上白手起傢打入其中的僅有的5名女性之一,也是年輕的成員之一。     
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          精彩書評
   "The breakaway bestseller is now in paperback. In a starred review, PW said, "Readers are in for a delightful romp with this debut from a British author who dances in the footsteps of P.L. Travers and Roald Dahl." 
--Publishers Weekly
"Harry Potter has spent 11 long years living with his aunt, uncle, and cousin, surely the vilest household in children's literature since the family Roald Dahl created for Matilda (Viking, 1988). But like Matilda, Harry is a very special child; in fact, he is the only surviving member of a powerful magical family. His parents were killed by the evil Voldemort, who then mysteriously vanished, and the boy grew up completely ignorant of his own powers, until he received notification of his acceptance at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Once there, Harry's life changes dramatically. Hogwarts is exactly like a traditional British boarding school, except that the professors are all wizards and witches, ghosts roam the halls, and the surrounding woods are inhabited by unicorns and centaurs. There he makes good friends and terrible enemies. However, evil is lurking at the very heart of Hogwarts, and Harry and his friends must finally face the malevolent and powerful Voldemort, who is intent on taking over the world. The delight of this book lies in the juxtaposition of the world of Muggles (ordinary humans) with the world of magic. A whole host of unique characters inhabits this world, from the absentminded Head Wizard Dumbledore to the sly and supercilious student Draco Malfoy to the loyal but not too bright Hagrid. Harry himself is the perfect confused and unassuming hero, whom trouble follows like a wizard's familiar. After reading this entrancing fantasy, readers will be convinced that they, too, could take the train to Hogwarts School, if only they could find Platform Nine and Three Quarters at the King's Cross Station."
--Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library
"Orphaned in infancy, Harry Potter is raised by reluctant parents, Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, an odious couple who would be right at home in a Roald Dahl novel. Things go from awful to hideous for Harry until, with the approach of his eleventh birthday, mysterious letters begin arriving addressed to him! His aunt and uncle manage to intercept these until a giant named Hagrid delivers one in person, and to his astonishment, Harry learns that he is a wizard and has been accepted (without even applying) as a student at Hogworts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There's even more startling news: it turns out that his parents were killed by an evil wizard so powerful that everyone is afraid to so much as utter his name, Voldemort. Somehow, though, Harry survived Voldemort's attempt to kill him, too, though it has left him with a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead and enormous celebrity in the world of magic, because Voldemort vanished following his failure. But is he gone for good? What is hidden on the third floor of Hogworts Castle? And who is the Man with Two Faces? Rowling's first novel, which has won numerous prizes in England, is a brilliantly imagined and beautifully written fantasy that incorporates elements of traditional British school stories without once violating the magical underpinnings of the plot. In fact, Rowling's wonderful ability to put a fantastic spin on sports, student rivalry, and eccentric faculty contributes to the humor, charm, and, well, delight of her utterly captivating story." 
--Michael Cart     
目錄
   1 The Boy Who Lived
2 The Vanishing Glass
3 The Letters from No One
4 The Keeper of the Keys
5 Diagon Alley
6 The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters
7 The Sorting Hat
8 The Potions Master
9 The Midnight Duel
10 Halloween
11 Quidditch
12 The Mirror of Erised
13 Nicolas Flamel
14 Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback
15 The Forbidden Forest
16 Through the Trapdoor
17 The Man with Two Faces       
精彩書摘
   Chapter Two
The Vanishing Glass
Yet Harry Potter was still there, asleep at the moment, but not for long. His Aunt Petunia was awake and it was her shrill voice that made the first noise of the day.
"Up! Get up! Now!"
Harry woke with a start. His aunt rapped on the door again.
"Up!" she screeched. Harry heard her walking toward the kitchen and then the sound of the frying pan being put on the stove. He rolled onto his back and tried to remember the dream he had been having. It had been a good one. There had been a flying motorcycle in it. He had a funny feeling he'd had the same dream before.
His aunt was back outside the door.
"Are you up yet?" she demanded.
"Nearly," said Harry.
"Well, get a move on, I want you to look after the bacon. And don't you dare let it burn, I want everything perfect on Duddy's birthday."
Harry groaned.
"What did you say?" his aunt snapped through the door.
"Nothing, nothing . . ."
Dudley's birthday - how could he have forgotten? Harry got slowly out of bed and started looking for socks. He found a pair under his bed and, after pulling a spider off one of them, put them on. Harry was used to spiders, because the cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where he slept.
When he was dressed he went down the hall into the kitchen. The table was almost hidden beneath all Dudley's birthday presents. It looked as though Dudley had gotten the new computer he wanted, not to mention the second television and the racing bike. Exactly why Dudley wanted a racing bike was a mystery to Harry, as Dudley was very fat and hated exercise - unless of course it involved punching somebody. Dudley's favorite punching bag was Harry, but he couldn't often catch him. Harry didn't look it, but he was very fast.
Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley's, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning. He had had it as long as he could remember, and the first question he could ever remember asking his Aunt Petunia was how he had gotten it.
"In the car crash when your parents died," she had said. "And don't ask questions."
Don't ask questions - that was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys.
Uncle Vernon entered the kitchen as Harry was turning over the bacon.
"Comb your hair!" he barked, by way of a morning greeting.
About once a week, Uncle Vernon looked over the top of his newspaper and shouted that Harry needed a haircut. Harry must have had more haircuts than the rest of the boys in his class put together, but it made no difference, his hair simply grew that way - all over the place.
Harry was frying eggs by the time Dudley arrived in the kitchen with his mother. Dudley looked a lot like Uncle Vernon. He had a large pink face, not much neck, small, watery blue eyes, and thick blond hair that lay smoothly on his thick, fat head. Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel - Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.
Harry put the plates of egg and bacon on the table, which was difficult as there wasn't much room. Dudley, meanwhile, was counting his presents. His face fell.
"Thirty-six," he said, looking up at his mother and father. "That's two less than last year."
"Darling, you haven't counted Auntie Marge's present, see, it's here under this big one from Mommy and Daddy."
"All right, thirty-seven then," said Dudley, going red in the face. Harry, who could see a huge Dudley tantrum coming on, began wolfing down his bacon as fast as possible in case Dudley turned the table over.
Aunt Petunia obviously scented danger, too, because she said quickly, "And we'll buy you another two presents while we're out today. How's that, popkin? Two more presents. Is that all right?"
Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work. Finally he said slowly, "So I'll have thirty . . . thirty . . ."
"Thirty-nine, sweetums," said Aunt Petunia.
"Oh." Dudley sat down heavily and grabbed the nearest parcel. "All right then."
Uncle Vernon chuckled.
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					《林中小屋》 (Little House in the Big Woods)  作者:勞拉·英格爾斯·懷德 (Laura Ingalls Wilder)  內容簡介:  《林中小屋》是著名“小房子”係列的第一部,帶領讀者迴到十九世紀七十年代的美國中西部,跟隨年幼的勞拉·英格爾斯一傢,體驗拓荒者們在廣袤、蠻荒的威斯康星州大森林中艱苦而又充滿溫情的日常生活。這不是一個關於魔法或騎士的奇幻故事,而是一部紮根於真實曆史和傢庭紐帶的、關於生存、適應與成長的動人迴憶錄。  故事從勞拉五歲那年的鼕天開始,她和她的父母——帕父(Pa)和帕母(Ma),以及姐姐瑪麗(Mary)和妹妹凱瑞(Carrie)——居住在密爾溪畔他們親手搭建的小木屋裏。小木屋是他們與自然抗爭的堡壘,也是他們溫暖的傢。   一、 拓荒者的日常與自然共存  小說的核心在於展現拓荒生活對資源的絕對依賴以及與大自然的和諧共處。在那個沒有超市、沒有便利店的年代,每一件生活必需品都必須由自己動手獲取或製作。  鼕季的準備與堅守: 威斯康星州的鼕天漫長而嚴酷,積雪能沒過成年人的腰。帕父是傢裏的支柱,他必須在白雪封山前完成最重要的任務:儲存食物和燃料。讀者將詳細看到他們如何利用一切可用的資源:帕父外齣打獵(主要是鹿和鬆鼠)以獲取肉食;帕母則忙於醃製、熏製和製作各種蔬菜的保存品,確保食物能夠度過漫長的冰封期。爐火是生命的象徵,木材的砍伐、堆放和管理是日常的重中之重。  傢庭的食物景觀: 書中對食物的描寫極其細緻,充滿瞭那個時代的印記。從新鮮的野味到帕母製作的各種點心,都體現瞭物資的珍貴。例如,他們會製作豬油渣(Cracklings)用來製作“豬油渣麵包”,或是用糖漿、蜂蜜作為主要的甜味來源。勞拉對生活細節的觀察,讓讀者仿佛能聞到木柴燃燒的煙火氣和食物的香甜。  手工藝與自給自足: 拓荒生活要求每個人都具備多項技能。帕父不僅是獵人,也是木匠和建造者。他用原木搭建瞭堅固的住所和圍欄。帕母的技藝則更為多樣:她會紡紗、織布、縫紉,甚至親手製作蠟燭和肥皂。這些手工製作的過程,清晰地展現瞭現代社會中早已消失的傳統技藝的價值。   二、 森林中的奇遇與教育  勞拉的世界由她傢的小木屋及其周圍的森林構成。森林既是供給者,也是潛在的危險來源,但對年幼的勞拉來說,它更是一個充滿魔力的遊樂場。  野生動物的見聞: 勞拉一傢與森林裏的各種動物為鄰。他們見過黑熊在林中漫步,目睹過成群結隊的狼群在遠處嚎叫,也曾被調皮的小鬆鼠逗樂。書中生動地描繪瞭這些野生動物的習性,這不僅是故事的裝飾,更是拓荒者必須學會的生存知識——如何尊重野生動物,如何避免衝突。  鄰裏的互動與社區的建立: 雖然他們住在相對偏僻的地方,但鄰居的齣現總是生活中的大事。無論是帕父去鎮上交易,還是鄰居帶著音樂前來做客,這些短暫的相聚都為單調的生活增添瞭色彩。書中描繪瞭拓荒者之間互相幫助的傳統,這對於在艱苦環境下生存至關重要。  早期的教育: 帕父和帕母深知教育的重要性。在沒有正規學校的地區,傢庭教育是唯一的途徑。帕父會教導勞拉和瑪麗閱讀、算術,教她們認識星星和月亮,傳授關於自然和生存的智慧。這種基於生活的、充滿熱情的學習方式,構成瞭勞拉早期知識儲備的基礎。   三、 傢庭的紐帶與情感的維係  盡管生活環境艱苦,但英格爾斯一傢始終保持著緊密而充滿愛的傢庭氛圍。這種情感上的相互支持是他們能夠剋服一切睏難的真正動力。  音樂與歡笑: 帕父的提琴(Fiddle)是小屋裏最動聽的樂器。每當夜晚降臨,在爐火的映照下,帕父拉起歡快的麯子,全傢人圍坐一圈唱歌跳舞。這些音樂時刻,是他們在艱辛生活中的精神慰藉,是抵抗孤獨和恐懼的良藥。即便是最疲憊的一天,音樂也能帶來純粹的快樂。  姐妹情誼: 勞拉和瑪麗之間的姐妹關係是故事的一條重要綫索。瑪麗雖然比勞拉年長,但性格沉靜、溫柔。兩人共同玩耍、分享秘密、互相依賴。她們在雪地裏玩“冰上之舟”、在夏天捕捉昆蟲,這些無憂無慮的童年片段,為沉重的拓荒生活注入瞭輕盈的色彩。  對未來的期盼: 帕父和帕母心中始終懷揣著“嚮西遷移”的夢想,他們對更廣闊的土地和更美好的未來抱有堅定的希望。正是這種對“更好的地方”的嚮往,支撐著他們度過每一個艱難的鼕天。他們教會孩子們,生活是一場持續的旅程,適應變化是生存之道。   四、 拓荒精神的縮影  《林中小屋》不僅僅是勞拉的個人迴憶,它更是對美國拓荒時代精神的一種緻敬。它展現瞭一種樸素而強大的價值觀:勤勞、堅韌、對傢庭的忠誠以及對自由的嚮往。  這本書沒有史詩般的戰爭或驚心動魄的冒險,其魅力在於對“平凡”生活細節的細膩捕捉和對人性的光輝展現。通過勞拉純真的視角,讀者得以體驗到,在沒有現代便利的條件下,人們如何用雙手和智慧,將一片荒野之地,打造成一個充滿愛與希望的傢園。這是一部關於根基、關於創造、關於如何學會“生活”的永恒經典。