內容簡介
The Caldecott medal-winning d'Aulaires once again captivate their young audience with this beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse legends, telling stories of Odin the All-father, Thor the Thunder-god and the theft of his hammer, Loki the mischievous god of the Jotun Race, and Ragnarokk, the destiny of the gods. Children meet Bragi, the god of poetry, and the famous Valkyrie maidens, among other gods, goddesses, heroes, and giants. Illustrations throughout depict the wondrous other world of Norse folklore and its fantastical Northern landscape.
作者簡介
Ingri Mortenson and
Edgar Parin d’Aulaire met at art school in Munich in 1921. Edgar’s father was a noted Italian portrait painter, his mother a Parisian. Ingri, the youngest of five children, traced her lineage back to the Viking kings.
The couple married in Norway, then moved to Paris. As Bohemian artists, they often talked about emigrating to America. “The enormous continent with all its possibilities and grandeur caught our imagination,” Edgar later recalled.
A small payment from a bus accident provided the means. Edgar sailed alone to New York where he earned enough by illustrating books to buy passage for his wife. Once there, Ingri painted portraits and hosted modest dinner parties. The head librarian of the New York Public Library’s juvenile department attended one of those. Why, she asked, didn’t they create picture books for children?
The d’Aulaires published their first children’s book in 1931. Next came three books steeped in the Scandinavian folklore of Ingri’s childhood. Then the couple turned their talents to the history of their new country. The result was a series of beautifully illustrated books about American heroes, one of which,
Abraham Lincoln, won the d’Aulaires the American Library Association’s Caldecott Medal. Finally they turned to the realm of myths.
The d’Aulaires worked as a team on both art and text throughout their joint career. Originally, they used stone lithography for their illustrations. A single four-color illustration required four slabs of Bavarian limestone that weighed up to two hundred pounds apiece. The technique gave their illustrations an uncanny hand-drawn vibrancy. When, in the early 1960s, this process became too expensive, the d’Aulaires switched to acetate sheets which closely approximated the texture of lithographic stone.
In their nearly five-decade career, the d’Aulaires received high critical acclaim for their distinguished contributions to children’s literature. They were working on a new book when Ingri died in 1980 at the age of seventy-five. Edgar continued working until he died in 1985 at the age of eighty-six.
Michael Chabon is the author of several books, including
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,
Wonder Boys,
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay,
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union,
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son and, most recently,
Telegraph Avenue.,,,,
精彩書評
"…a mythological tour de force."
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The New York Times"Out of print for many years,
Norse Gods and Giants has been very handsomely reissued by the The New York Review Children’s Collection and retitled
D’Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths. Featuring a sturdy sewn binding, the book arguably represents the pinnacle of the d’Aulaires’ achievement as storytellers and artists….the prose seems livelier and more robust in the Norse myths than in the Greek…Their retelling of the Greek myths for children had to pull its punches somewhat….but since sex doesn't feature as prominently in Norse mythology, this book is able to stay scrupulously faithful to the Edda and still maintain its PG rating. But not to worry: there’s still a lot of drinking, fighting and bad behavior, particularly on the part of fiery Thor, who is forever whacking frost giants on the head with his hammer, and the highly entertaining Loki, who is one of the most complicated and devious characters in anybody’s mythology, anywhere. Loki is the Bart Simpson of Norse mythology, forever pulling pranks, forever getting caught and forever talking his way out of the consequences…"
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The New York Times Book Review"[These] works, especially the books of Norse and Greek myths, were and remain crucial to me, and now to my own children. The interest in mythology that was kindled by those two books has endured throughout my life, and has directly influenced my own writing in countless ways…The Norse book was always my favorite, though. I must have read it a dozen times at least by the time I was nine or ten."
— Michael Chabon
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北京地區的動物區係有屬於濛新區東部草原、長白山地、鬆遼平原的區係成分,也有東洋界季風區、長江南北的動物區係成分,故北京的動物區係有由古北界嚮東洋界過渡的動物區係特徵。此動物區係中有獸類約40種,鳥類約220種,爬行動物16種,兩棲動物7種,魚類60種。[9]
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北京已發現的礦種共67種,礦床、礦點産地476處,列入國傢儲量錶的礦種44種,其中:能源礦産2種;黑色金屬礦産4種,有色金屬、貴金屬及分散元素礦産11種;冶金輔助原料非金屬礦産7種;化工原料非金屬礦産5種;建材及其他非金屬礦産15種。共有産地300處,其中黑色金屬産地49處,有色金屬産地35處,冶金輔助原料非金屬産地43處,化工原料非金屬産地68處,建材及其他非金屬産地75處,煤炭産地30處。[9]
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北京已發現的礦種共67種,礦床、礦點産地476處,列入國傢儲量錶的礦種44種,其中:能源礦産2種;黑色金屬礦産4種,有色金屬、貴金屬及分散元素礦産11種;冶金輔助原料非金屬礦産7種;化工原料非金屬礦産5種;建材及其他非金屬礦産15種。共有産地300處,其中黑色金屬産地49處,有色金屬産地35處,冶金輔助原料非金屬産地43處,化工原料非金屬産地68處,建材及其他非金屬産地75處,煤炭産地30處。[9]
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非常不錯的繪本,用瞭券價格也不錯
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地帶性植被類型是暖溫帶落葉闊葉林並間有溫性針葉林的分布。大部分平原地區已成為農田和城鎮,隻在河岸兩旁局部窪地發育著以蘆葦、香蒲、慈菇等為主的窪生植被,但多數窪地已被開闢為魚塘,在擱荒地及田埂、路旁多雜草;湖泊,水塘中發育著沉水和浮葉的水生植被。海拔800米以下的低山帶錶性的植被類型是栓皮櫟林、櫟林、油鬆林和側柏林。海拔800米以上的中山,森林覆蓋率增大,其下部以遼東櫟林為主,海拔1000米至1800~2000米,樺樹增多,在森林群落破壞嚴重的地段,為二色鬍枝子、榛屬、綉綫菊屬占優勢的灌叢。海拔1800~1900米以上的山頂生長著山地雜類草草甸。[9]
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書不錯,就是沒貨等瞭些日子。不過總體來說還是不錯的。
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鑒於此,他的米蘭時書寫的連續72頁的《哈默手稿》則更見得彌足珍貴。手稿當中包含大量對水力學、天文學、建築學、岩石和化石的闡述文字和手稿草圖。當1994年微軟總裁比爾•蓋茨以3080萬美元的價格購買瞭《哈默手稿》時,傳記作傢麥剋爾•懷特問他為什麼要這樣做,蓋茨苦笑道:“因為我需要它。”並說“《哈默手稿》屬於全世界”。
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☆☆☆☆☆
有活動時候買的,還可以。
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☆☆☆☆☆
非常好