苏斯博士的“致远”是收放自如、纵横捭阖,最终还要回到起点,也即当下。仿佛无所从来,亦无所从去。
In this hilarious book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr.
Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing too big for your boots! With
his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and
riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and
helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the
wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranking among the UK''s top
ten favourite children''s authors, Seuss is firmly established as a
global best-seller, with nearly half a million books sold
worldwide. This delightful book forms part of the third stage in
HarperCollins'' major Dr. Seuss rebrand programme. With the relaunch
of six more titles in January 2004, such all-time favourites as The
Lorax, The Foot Book and Yertle the Turtle boast bright new covers
that incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels: Blue Back
Books are for parents to share with young children, Green Back
Books are for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow
Back Books are for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. Yertle the
Turtle and other stories belongs to the Yellow Back Book range.
Yertle''s story
leads off with his attempt to build a bigger kingdom on the backs
of his loyal subjects literally. King of everything he can see,
Yertle orders his turtles to stack up under him to build a towering
throne. "He made each turtle stand on another one''s back and he
piled them all up in a nine-turtle stack." But a plain little
turtle named Mack--stuck at the bottom--decides he''s had enough.
"I know up on top you are seeing great sights, but down on the
bottom we, too, should have rights!"
關於作者:
苏斯,二十世纪最卓越的儿童文学作家之一,一生创作48种精彩绘本,作品被翻译成20多种文字和盲文,全球销量逾2.5亿册,曾获美国图画书最高荣誉凯迪克大奖和普利策特殊贡献奖,两次获奥斯卡金像奖和艾美奖,美国教育部指定的重要阅读辅导读物。
Theodor Seuss Giesel -- better known to millions of his fans
as Dr. Seuss -- was born the son of a park superintendant in
Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904. After studying at Dartmouth
College, New Hampshire, and later at Oxford University in England,
he became a magazine humourist and cartoonist, and an advertising
man. He soon turned his many talents to writing children''s books,
and his first book -- And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street
-- was published in 1937. His greatest claim to fame was the one
and only The Cat in the Hat, published in 1957, the first of a
hugely successful range of early learning books.