内容简介
The classic tale of a peddler, some monkeys and their monkey business.
作者简介
Esphyr Slobodkina (the name is pronounced ess-FEER sloh-BOD-kee-nah) was born in the Siberian town of Chelyabinsk on Sept. 22, 1908.
Esphyr immigrated to the United States on a student visa at the age of 29. She enrolled at the National Academy of Design, NYC, and in the 1930s, she worked painting lamp shades and soon after murals for the WPA. Esphyr was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, which began amid controversy in 1936.
In 1937 Slobodkina met the children's author Margaret Wise Brown. In an effort to find work as an illustrator, Slobodkina wrote and illustrated a story with collage called Mary And The Poodies to present to Brown. This began a new career for Slobodkina, who illustrated many children's stories for Ms. Brown (including Sleepy ABCs and the Big and Little series) while still continuing her work as an abstract artist.
In her autobiography, (portions available through this web-site) Ms. Slobodkina wrote, "When Margaret died, I was left without a writer, and since she always insisted that she liked the way I told my stories, I took a deep breath and began to send them to my agent." Ms. Slobodkina took her responsibility as a children's book author seriously. In her memoir she wrote: "The verbal patterns and the patterns of behavior we present to children in these lighthearted confections are likely to influence them for the rest of their lives. These aesthetic impressions, just like the moral teachings of early childhood, remain indelible."
Caps for Sale was first published in 1938. Since then it has sold more than two million copies. Today it is considered a children's book classic as generation after generation pass the story along to new readers. In sales it ranks with such classics as Good Night Moon, according to Publisher's Weekly.
Caps for Sale, won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 and is memorialized in a painting by Ms. Slobodkina on permanent exhibition in the West Hartford Library, CT.
Ms. Slobodkina wrote and illustrated numerous other books, including Mary and The Poodies (1937), The Wonderful Feast, (1955), The Clock (1956), The Long Island Ducklings (1961), and Pezzo the Peddler and the Circus Elephant, which was first published in 1967 and was reissued in 2002 as Circus Caps for Sale, to name a few.
At the age of 88, Esphyr's primary focus became overseeing the production of musical storybook cassettes of all twenty of her children's books.
At age 90, Esphyr designed a mini museum in Glen Head, Long Island, NY (through her Slobodkina Foundation) as a place where guests can visit and view more than 200 works of art, her handmade dolls and jewelry, as well as her complete collection of children's storybooks, including some original illustrations.
Famed artist and author Esphyr Slobodkina was a leader of the abstract movement in the United States from the 1930s until her death at age 93 in July 2002.
精彩书评
A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business, this absurd and very simple story has become a classic, selling hundreds of thousands of copies since its first publication in 1940. A peddler walks around selling caps from a tall, tottering pile on his head. Unable to sell a single cap one morning, he walks out into the countryside, sits down under a tree, checks that all the caps are in place, and falls asleep. When he wakes up, the caps are gone--and the tree is full of cap-wearing monkeys. His attempts to get the caps back generate the kind of repetitive rhythm that 3- and 4-year-olds will adore.
--Richard Farr
"From an old folk tale [the author] has fashioned this bright picture book, infusing it with a humor which seems to have sprung from her own hearty enjoyment of the troubles of a peddler with a abnd of monkeys."
--The New York Times
前言/序言
Caps for Sale卖帽子 英文原版 [平装] [4-8岁] 下载 mobi epub pdf txt 电子书 格式
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这只是一本看似简单的低幼版读物,却牢牢地吸引了宝宝和妈妈。这本书的色彩很丰富,并且不是刻板的印刷体,而是粗朴的手画,并且是象孩子画的一样(我的同事看到这本书的时候,就说,这画我都能画出来,转念一想,又觉得自己画不了),这是非常容易吸引孩子的注意力的; 这本书用很可爱的方法讲了一个自然现象,毛虫变蝴蝶——想想我们的语文或自然课本会怎么讲这个过程吧,你就知道这本书的讲法有多有趣了。重要的不是怎么讲的,而是通
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花山崖壁画与左江其他地方的崖壁画有极其相似之处。基本图像有四种:一、正身人像;二、侧身人像;三、动物形象;四、圆形物象。此外,尚有所谓“羊角纽钟”物(1个),三角棱形物(3个)。根据新修的《宁明县志》统计,整个花山崖壁画,正身人像能看清的有350个。基本上为方头粗颈形与圆头细颈形两种。身高多在0.6米至1.5米左右(最小的仅0.1米.最大的2.4米)。都做蛙形半蹲状,双手屈肘向上伸,手指三个五个不等。有的头上有倒八字形饰物。少数人像腰间佩剑或环首刀,脚下有动物。