马丁·韦德尔Martin Waddell,1941年出生于北爱尔兰,他的梦想是当一位职业足球员。他年幼时听过很多很会讲故事的大人讲过很多故事,他深深地爱上了这些故事。成年后,马丁·韦德尔曾被活埋并患过癌症,但他幸运地活了下来。他一直住在幼年居住的房子里,而他的故事里所有的事物也都能在他居住的房子周围找到影子。马丁.韦德尔的作品曾多次获得英国史马提斯奖The Smarties Book Prize、凯特格林威大奖The Kate Greenaway Medal、鹅妈妈大奖等国际知名奖项。作品包括《小猫头鹰》Owl Babies;与以灵活的线条及巧妙的布局取胜的绘者芭芭拉·弗斯Barbara Firth合作的系列图画书:《你睡不着吗?》Can''t you sleep, little
bear?、《做得好,小小熊》Good job, little bear、《咱们回家吧,小小熊》(Let''s go home, little bear);和海伦.奥克森伯瑞Oxenbury合作的《鸭子农夫》Farmer duck等。他的故事大多取材于小孩日常生活中一个观点或一份心情
New to board book format is Martin Waddell''s Owl Babies, in
which three worried owlets wait for their mother to return from her
night flight. Patrick Benson''s disarming cross-hatched pictures of
fluffy, wide-eyed owl babies, and the use of light colored text
against a black background, turn this sweet story into a hauntingly
lovely little book.
關於作者:
Martin Waddell is the Hans Christian Andersen Medal winner 2004 and
two-time Smarties Prize winner. Among his many books for children
are the Little Bear and Farmer Duck series. Martin lives in
Newcastle in County Down.