本帖最后由 chris 于 2012-8-14 06:32 编辑
2012年的凯迪克金奖颁给了A ball for Daisy。
这本是一本无字书,所以再小的孩子也可以看哦。故事讲的是小狗Daisy有一个心爱的红球,吃饭睡觉都要抱着,外出更是离不开。有一次,一个狗狗和Daisy一起玩,把球抢了过去,结果球给弄坏了,Daisy非常伤心……作者在这里用了一系列的图来表现。当然,给孩子看的书通常是Happy Ending的,至于如何Happy,我就不剧透了,以免破坏了阅读的乐趣。
每个人都有失去心爱之物的时候,这本书用绘画传神的表现出了这个过程。
作者
Chris Raschka在2006年以
The Hello, Goodby Window (中文版《神奇的窗子》)曾获得过凯迪克金奖,这次是再获殊荣。还在1994年以
Yo!Yes?获得了凯迪克银奖。
购于京东,精装本,53.5的京东价钱,搞活动300-200,差不多19元不到拿下的。
下面美国NPR电台对作者的访谈:
January 23, 2012
A Ball for Daisy is a story of loss — a little dog loses her favorite red ball to a much larger dog — but now it's also a story about winning: On Monday, Chris Raschka's book won the American Library Association's Randolph Caldecott Medal for best illustrated story.
It's not Raschka's first Caldecott honor; he won in 2006 forThe Hello, Goodbye Window and was a Caldecott honoree in 1994 for Yo! Yes?
A Ball for Daisy is Raschka's first wordless picture book, and it was "certainly a challenge," he tells NPR's Robert Siegel. "It went through many, many variations."
It's not easy to draw the same dog, from different angles, page after page and make her recognizable.
"You can't imagine how big that wastebasket [of rejected Daisy drawings] is," Raschka admits. "In fact, sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste."
The story was inspired by Raschka's son, who had a beloved ball that was destroyed by a dog. "[It happened] when he was 4 ... and it was such a devastation for him," Raschka says. "It's kind of ... the first time he experienced something he loved ending, and that he couldn't get that back."
Raschka has illustrated children's books on wide-ranging subjects — from Charlie Parker Played Be Bop to Mysterious Thelonious toArlene Sardine, the story of a fish who dreamed of becoming someone's breakfast. Raschka has a simple criterion for choosing his subjects:
"Anything that creates a strong emotion in me," he says. "Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship — if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.