2009年获得英国儿童绘本的最高荣誉:凯特格林纳威奖
全书用开阔的画面,通过一只小兔子“发现大脚丫的用途”的故事,讲述了生命的历程。
小兔子Harris觉得自己有一双傻傻的大脚,“为什么我有一双大脚呢?”他问爷爷。
爷爷说,所有的兔子都有一双大脚。“但是为什么呢?”小兔子问。
爷爷带着小兔子越跳越高,让他知道大脚丫的弹跳力;爷爷带着小兔子越跑越远,跑上山岗,望见飞鸟;爷爷带小兔子穿过旱地,告诉小兔子如何用大脚丫挖掘凉爽的洞穴;看!这双大脚丫有多好……小兔子甚至躺在地上把脚丫举过头顶,用大脚丫遮住太阳乘凉。
突然远处一个阴影出现了,是狐狸!爷爷喊着,Harris快跑,快跑!
小兔子跑呀跑,爷爷没有跟上来,小兔子孤独了。等爷爷赶上来的时候,小兔子问爷爷为什么迟到了,爷爷回答道“我已经老了”,It’s
your turn to
run.——这就是生命,是时候了,小兔子要自己去跑去跳,去发现他的世界了。这就是小兔子Harris为什么要有一双大脚!
This is one of the loveliest books we''ve come across recently -
內容簡介:
Harris was a very small hare with very big feet. ''Why do I have
such enormous feet, Grandad?'' Harris sighed. So Grandad shows
Harris how to hop high into the sky, to climb to the tops of the
mountains, and to run very fast. Harris not only learns about the
world around him but also the importance of finding his own
feet.
關於作者:
Award-winning author-illustrator Catherine Rayner studied
Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. She fell in love with the
city and still lives there with a small menagerie of creatures. In
2006 Catherine won the Best New Illustrator Award at the Booktrust
Early Years Awards and was also shortlisted for the VA
Illustration Awards. In 2007 her first book, Augustus and His
Smile, was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway medal, and in 2008
Catherine was named one of the ten best new illustrators as part of
Booktrust''s ''Big Picture'' campaign.