【彈指間，你我間】《The World in a Second》

在這個不停運轉的世界上，這瞬間，在地球的另一邊，正發生甚麼事情？

可能有艘船在波羅的海遭遇暴風雨；或是一群上班族被卡在紐約大廈的電梯裡；另一邊在墨西哥，有困在車陣中狂按喇叭的駕駛；寂靜的另一端有座火山突然爆發；這一秒學會騎腳踏車小男孩，下一秒是否還能平衡身軀往前騎？

每天每天，同一個時間，世界各地正在進行著。透過這本書，人們會不會也對他人有更深的連結及同理呢？

必買原因
◎透過繪本簡單學會地理知識
◎時間概念交給這一本準沒錯

Inspired by the question, "What are they doing right at this moment on the other side of the world?" this book focuses on natural and human events happening all over the world in the same second. Talking about the world and how it's so different in places but also so similar and shared, so incredible and surprising, the books takes us to New York, Chicago, Mexico, Portugal, Angola, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Hungry, Brazil, and South Africa, among others.

So, while you sit turning the pages of this book, things are happening everywhere. Somewhere, a wave is reaching the shore. Elsewhere, an orange falls from a tree. In yet other places, there's a traffic jam, a stuck elevator, and someone's going to sleep. Inevitably, a book is coming to an end as another is beginning. Time is always in a hurry, never, ever stopping, and yet as you focus on these lovely illustrations, which stand as true evocations of place, time begins to slow down and, for moments, it even feels as if time has stopped, and you are transported – out of the flow of time and into the wholeness and purity of a moment. A moment of bird flight; a moment of daydreaming while washing the dishes; a moment of wondering how something felt and what came next.

Isabel Minhós Martins is a Portuguese author and publisher whose words are found in works of poetry, children's books, magazines, comic books, and scripts for animations. She is also the publisher of Planeta Tangerina, a Portuguese publishing company. Several of her books have already been published by the Tate.