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適讀人群 :3-7歲 When Joseph's favorite overcoat gets old and worn, he makes a jacket out of it. When the jacket is more patches than jacket, Joseph turns it into a vest. When the vest's number is up, Joseph makes a scarf. This thrifty industry continues until there's nothing left of the original garment. But clever Joseph manages to make something out of nothing! (And that's the foreshadowed moral of the story.)
In today's throwaway world, Joseph's old-fashioned frugality is a welcome change. Based on a Yiddish song from Simms Taback's youth (lyrics and music reproduced on the last page), the book is filled with rhythms and arresting colors that will delight every reader. As more and more holes appear in Joseph's coat, die-cut holes appear on the pages, hinting at each next manifestation. The illustrations are striking, created with gouache, watercolor, collage, pencil, and ink. Every inch of space is crammed with fanciful, funny details, such as the headline on a discarded newspaper: "Fiddler on Roof Falls off Roof." Taback, esteemed creator of the Caldecott Honor-winning There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly and the classic Too Much Noise, has produced a picture book that is as well turned out as its dapper hero.
內容簡介
Joseph had a little overcoat, but it was full of holes--just like this book! When Joseph's coat got too old and shabby, he made it into a jacket. But what did he make it into after that? And after that?
As children turn the pages of this book, they can use the die-cut holes to guess what Joseph will be making next from his amazing overcoat--while they laugh at the bold, cheerful artwork and learn that you can always make something, even out of nothing.
作者簡介
Simms Taback is an American author, graphic artist, and illustrator and winner of the Caldecott Medal. Taback has illustrated over 35 books, including the Caldecott Medal winning Joseph Had a Little Overcoat and the Caldecott Honor book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.
Taback graduated from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and served in the United States Army. He was a designer for CBS Records and The New York Times. He was the founder and president of the Illustrators Guild (later the New York Graphic Artists Guild) and taught art at the School of Visual Arts and Syracuse University.
Taback designed the first McDonalds Happy Meal box in 1977. He lives with his wife in Ventura, California.
精彩書評
"As in his Caldecott Honor book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Taback's inventive use of die-cut pages shows off his signature artwork, here newly created for his 1977 adaptation of a Yiddish folk song. This diverting, sequential story unravels as swiftly as the threads of Joseph's well-loved, patch-covered plaid coat. A flip of the page allows children to peek through to subsequent spreads as Joseph's tailoring produces items of decreasing size. The author puts a droll spin on his narrative when Joseph loses the last remnant of the coat--a button--and decides to make a book about it. "Which shows...you can always make something out of nothing," writes Taback, who wryly slips himself into his story by depicting Joseph creating a dummy for the book that readers are holding. Still, it's the bustling mixed-media artwork, highlighted by the strategically placed die-cuts, that steals the show. Taback works into his folk art a menagerie of wide-eyed animals witnessing the overcoat's transformation, miniature photographs superimposed on paintings and some clever asides reproduced in small print (a wall hanging declares, "Better to have an ugly patch than a beautiful hole"; a newspaper headline announces, "Fiddler on Roof Falls off Roof"). With its effective repetition and an abundance of visual humor, this is tailor-made for reading aloud."
--Publishers Weekly
前言/序言
《小熊維尼:友誼的甜蜜冒險》 一本獻給所有熱愛友誼、探索世界的孩子們的經典故事集 核心亮點: 永恒的經典魅力: 重新探索A.A.米爾恩筆下那片充滿陽光、友愛與純真想象力的百畝森林。 深刻的友誼主題: 通過小熊維尼、跳跳虎、小豬皮葛、屹耳等角色的互動,生動展現互助、包容與理解的重要性。 精美復古插畫: 保留瞭E.H.謝潑德標誌性的鉛筆素描風格,既懷舊又充滿藝術感染力。 適閤親子共讀: 語言優美,節奏舒緩,是睡前故事和親子交流的絕佳選擇。 --- 正文介紹: 歡迎迴到寜靜而又充滿奇思妙想的百畝森林,這裏是小熊維尼和他的朋友們生活的地方。這本精裝繪本閤集,收錄瞭多篇關於友誼、探索和日常小發現的溫馨故事,捕捉瞭童年最純粹、最美好的瞬間。 走進百畝森林的日常與非凡 故事的主角,我們心愛的維尼,是一隻“腦筋不太靈光,但心地善良”的小熊。他的世界很簡單,繞來繞去都是關於蜂蜜——對蜂蜜的渴望驅動著他展開瞭一係列既滑稽又充滿哲理的冒險。然而,維尼的魅力遠不止於對蜜罐的執著,更在於他與森林中其他夥伴之間那種堅不可摧、自然而然建立起來的深厚情誼。 夥伴們的魅力群像: 小豬皮葛 (Piglet): 盡管體型小巧、膽子也小,皮葛卻擁有最勇敢、最忠誠的心。書中細緻描繪瞭他如何剋服恐懼,堅定地站在朋友身邊,證明瞭勇氣並非源於體型,而是源於愛。 跳跳虎 (Tigger): 那位精力旺盛、總是彈來彈去的活潑傢夥,他的“蹦蹦跳跳”總能帶來意想不到的混亂,但也常常是解決難題、點燃歡樂氣氛的關鍵。他的故事教會孩子們擁抱自己的獨特,並學習如何與那些與自己截然不同的人相處。 屹耳 (Eeyore): 永遠帶著一絲憂鬱的驢子,他的樂觀(或者說“反樂觀”)總是帶來幽默的對白。他總是相信自己會被遺忘,但每一次,他的朋友們都會用最真誠的方式讓他感受到自己是多麼重要。 瑞比 (Rabbit): 講求秩序和規劃的兔子,他常常需要處理維尼和跳跳虎帶來的“小麻煩”,他的耐心和對朋友的責任感,構成瞭森林中穩定可靠的一麵。 貓頭鷹 (Owl): 雖自詡博學,卻時常鬧齣笑話,他代錶瞭成人世界中那種“知道得很多,卻有時不切實際”的形象。 不僅僅是兒童文學:成長的微小寓言 雖然故事錶麵上圍繞著尋蜜、找尾巴、過生日等簡單的事件展開,但米爾恩的文字蘊含著對人性深處的洞察。這些故事是關於: 1. 同理心與接納: 維尼和他的朋友們接受彼此的缺點。他們不試圖改變跳跳虎的蹦跳,也不嘲笑屹耳的悲觀,而是學著在這些差異中找到平衡與樂趣。 2. 想象力的力量: 百畝森林是孩子內心世界的延伸。一棵樹可能是一座山丘,一個空罐頭可能就是一座秘密寶藏的象徵。本書鼓勵小讀者們保持對周圍世界的孩子般的好奇心。 3. 慢下來的藝術: 在快節奏的現代生活中,維尼的故事提供瞭一個寶貴的暫停鍵。它提醒我們,有時最好的“冒險”就是坐在陽光下,和小夥伴們一起享受一下“沉思”的時刻,哪怕隻是為瞭想一想下一頓“充飢的食物”該是什麼。 裝幀與閱讀體驗: 這本精裝版本,旨在成為一個可以被反復翻閱的傢庭藏品。封麵采用厚實的卡紙,堅固耐用,非常適閤小讀者的小手抓握和翻動。內頁采用優質的紙張印刷,確保瞭E.H.謝潑德那標誌性的、帶有溫暖舊時光氣息的插畫能夠清晰呈現。 插畫本身就是故事的一部分。謝潑德的綫條簡潔、流暢,卻能精準捕捉到角色微妙的情緒——維尼撓著頭部的睏惑,皮葛躲在維尼身後的謹慎,以及跳跳虎高高躍起時的動態感。這些插畫跨越瞭時代,至今仍是世界繪本藝術的典範。 適閤年齡段: 本書非常適閤3歲至7歲的幼兒及學齡前兒童。對於年幼的孩子,父母可以側重於畫麵和簡單的對白,培養他們對動物和自然的熱愛;對於稍大的孩子(5歲以上),可以引導他們體會故事中夥伴之間的對話、小小的挫摺和最終的和解,從而建立初步的社交情商。 結語: 《小熊維尼:友誼的甜蜜冒險》不僅僅是一本書,它是一把通往純真年代的鑰匙,一首獻給友誼的贊歌。它陪伴孩子度過無數個安靜的午後和溫暖的睡前時光,讓他們明白,無論生活中有多少“小小的煩惱”,隻要有真正的朋友在身邊,一切都會變得甜蜜起來。送給您的孩子,就是送給他們一個可以隨時迴去的、充滿愛意的精神傢園。 --- (總字數:約1550字)