OPEN A BOOK,OPEN THE WORLD
作者：Spencer, Sophia/ McNamara, Margaret/ Kerascoet(ill.)
出版社：Random House
年份：2020
ISBN：9780525645931
書號：20337742
裝訂：精裝
定價：$700
優惠價：$595元
改編自真實勵志事件的繪本，主角蘇菲亞（Sophia Spencer）從小就對大自然中的昆蟲充滿無比的好奇與熱愛。
對她來說，螳螂、毛毛蟲、螞蟻和甲蟲不是讓人退避三舍的小怪物，而是迷人、美麗又聰明的好朋友。
然而，當她上學後，她的這項特殊興趣卻為她帶來了困擾。
班上的其他孩子無法理解她為什麼喜歡「蟲子」，甚至開始嘲笑她、排擠她，讓蘇菲亞感到孤單與挫折，甚至一度懷疑自己——
難道喜歡昆蟲是一件很奇怪的事嗎？
幸好，蘇菲亞的母親看到了女兒的低落與對科學的熱情，她決定寫信向外界尋求幫助。
母親聯繫了加拿大昆蟲學社（Entomological Society of Canada）。
出乎意料的是，這封信在網路上引發了巨大的迴響！世界各地的女科學家、生物學家和昆蟲學家們紛紛湧入溫暖的鼓勵，
告訴蘇菲亞：「喜歡昆蟲超酷的！」、「妳不是一個人！」。
這次的經歷重新點燃了蘇菲亞的自信，讓她勇敢擁抱自己的熱情，並在科學的道路上昂首前行。
Real-life 7-year-old Sophia Spencer was bullied for loving bugs until hundreds of women scientists rallied around her. Now Sophie tells her inspiring story in this picture book that celebrates women in science, bugs of all kinds, and the importance of staying true to yourself. Makes a perfect gift for nature lovers on Earth Day and every day!
Sophia Spencer has loved bugs ever since a butterfly landed on her shoulder--and wouldn't leave!--at a butterfly conservancy when she was only two-and-a-half years old. In preschool and kindergarten, Sophia was thrilled to share what she knew about grasshoppers (her very favorite insects), as well as ants and fireflies... but by first grade, not everyone shared her enthusiasm. Some students bullied her, and Sophia stopped talking about bugs altogether.
When Sophia's mother wrote to an entomological society looking for a bug scientist to be a pen pal for her daughter, she and Sophie were overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response--letters, photos, and videos came flooding in. Using the hashtag BugsR4Girls, scientists tweeted hundreds of times to tell Sophia to keep up her interest in bugs--and it worked! Sophia has since appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, and NPR, and she continues to share her love of bugs with others.
