本书是美国著名儿童书作家Arnold Stark Lobel （1933-1987）获得凯迪克金奖的作品。该作者的其他作品还有《青蛙和蟾蜍》系列、《老鼠汤》、《蚱蜢的旅行》等等。
A collection of brand-new fables with vivid colour illustrations, ideal for bedtime reading, all in the style of Aesop with a moral attached. It was the winner of the 1980 Caldecott Medal in the USA when it was first published.
【作者简介】
During his distinguished career Arnold Lobel wrote and/or
illustrated over 70 books for children. To his illustrating credit,
he had a Caldecott Medal book -- Fables (1981) -- and two Caldecott
Honor Books-his own Frog and Toad are Friends (1971) and Hildilid's
Night by Cheli Duran Ryan (1972). To his writing credit, he had a
Newbery Honor Book -- Frog and Toad Together (1973). But to his
greatest credit, he had a following of literally millions of young
children with whom he shared the warmth and humor of his
unpretentious vision of life.
Though he was a born storyteller -- he began making up stories
extemporaneously to entertain his fellow second-graders in
Schenectady, New York, where he grew up in the care of his
grandparents. Mr. Lobel called himself a "lucky amateur" in terms
of his writing. Viewing himself as a professionally trained
illustrator (he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt
Institute), he said, "I know how to draw pictures. With writing, I
don't really know what I'm doing. It's very intuitive."
In addition to the Frog and Toad books, Owl at Home, Mouse Tales,
The Book of Pigericks, and many other popular books he created, Mr.
Lobel also illustrated other writers' texts that captured his
fancy. He viewed this as "something different and challenging."
Often his illustrations for those books showed a different aspect
of his personality and his artistic expertise, ranging from his
meticulous dinosaurs in Dinosaur Time by Peggy Parish to his
chilling pen-and-ink drawings in Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your
Sleep by Jack Prelutsky, about which Booklist wrote, "Young readers
will be amazed that the gentle Lobel of Frog and Toad fame can be
so comfortably diabolic."
In 1977 Mr. Lobel and his wife, Anita, a distinguished children's
book author and artist in her own right, collaborated on their
first book, How the Rooster Saved the Day, chosen by School Library
Journal as one of the Best Books of the Year, 1977. They then
collaborated on three more books, A Treeful of Pigs, a 1979 ALA
Notable Book; On Market Street, a 1982 Caldecott Honor Book; and
The Rose in My Garden, a 1984 Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor
Book.
Arnold Lobel died in 1987.
【内容简介】
全书共有20个动物寓言故事，每页一个故事，每页一幅图画；寓意深刻，画风优美。
Short, original fables with fresh, unexpected morals poke subtle fun at human foibles through the antics of animals. . . . The droll illustrations, with tones blended to luminescent shading, are complete and humorous themselves.
【媒体评论】
My eight year old daughter came home from school with this book and proceeded to read many of the stories out loud (to me and to anyone else who would listen). The book has wonderful illustrations and each of the stories is brief and concise yet, entertaining. My daughter was eager to own the book and begged for me to buy it for her. At the end of each story is a one sentence 'moral' which helps focus the reader and helps her pay attention to the meaning of the fable.
