兒童英語讀本

Michael Rosen's Sad Book
出版社： Walker Books Limited
書林書號：
20163679
作者：
Rosen, Michael
定價：
335
會員價：
$285
ISBN：
9781406317848
出版年份：
2011
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
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【傷心是一種記憶，抬頭仰望，烏雲總會散去】《Michael Rosen’s Sad Book》

家人相繼辭世，讓主角心中悲傷的角落愈變愈大，也愈來愈難以控制。想起年輕的兒子驟逝讓他難過；而即便想跟母親傾訴這些痛苦，但她也不在了，悲痛和憂傷將他徹底擊垮。但他知道，傷心無處不在，它不會告知你它何時會來，也不在乎你是否想要，於是，他想了幾種舒緩心痛的方法，當然，包括寫作。
他無法忘記母親跟兒子；於是溫柔地把兩人包覆在心中；他想起兒時跟母親撐傘在雨中漫步，也想起兒子的頑皮活力；又想起兒子的生日，以及兒子生日蛋糕上的搖曳著火光的蠟燭，看著溫暖的光芒，他似乎感到內心的傷口能逐漸癒合...。
作者Michael Rosen有超過一百部作品，除了是兒童文學大師之外，也是政治專欄作家。Rosen的母親在他30歲時去世，而他二兒子Eddie十八歲時，不幸因腦膜炎去世；兩位摯愛的離開啟發了這本傷心之書。人的一生都必須面對無數次的別離，親人的離去撕裂我們的心，讓生活不再像過去般充滿歡樂與溫情。但是我們無法預測死亡的到來，或許唯一能做的，是學會擁抱自己破碎的心，帶著那些永難忘懷的回憶，繼續走下去。
必買原因
◎繪本版《最美的安排》，沒有眾星雲集但有滿滿溫暖力量
◎透過作者親身經歷的直白口吻，明白心碎的痛楚
◎用回憶和愛，重拾心的碎片


Very occasionally the term non-fiction has to stretch itself to accommodate a book that fits into no category at all. Michael Rosen's Sad Book is such a book. It chronicles Michael's grief at the death of his son Eddie from meningitis at the age of 19. A moving combination of sincerity and simplicity, it acknowledges that sadness is not always avoidable or reasonable and perfects the art of making complicated feelings plain. It wasn't made like any other book either; Michael Rosen said of the text, " I wrote it at a moment of extreme feeling and it went straight down onto the page ...Quentin didn't illustrate it, he 'realized' it. He turned the text into a book and as a result showed me back to myself. No writer could ask and get more than that." And Quentin Blake says that the picture of Michael "being sad but trying to look happy" is the most difficult drawing he's ever done..."a moving experience."
Paperback: 40 pages
Age Range: 5 - 7 years
尺寸：21.7 x 0.5 x 29.2 cm
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