Pezzettino

Pezzettino   by Leo Lionni

Again, I like to introduce this book "Pezzettino" by Leo Lionni.

Pezzettino lives in a world in which everyone is big and does daring and
wonderful things. But he is small, just a "little piece," which is the meaning
of pezzettino in Italian. I must be a piece of somebody else. I must belong to
someone else, he thinks, and one day he decides to find out.

How Pezzettino learns that he belongs to no one but himself is the joyous and
satisfying conclusion to this beautiful picture book. Using collage and small,
colorful squares, Leo Lionni has created a delightfully graphic fable that
captures all the longing of a small child in a world of big people.

如果你讀過失落的一角及圓滿大結局,大師的這本書你一定能夠心領神會,
每個人都有懷疑自己的時候,當你想要尋找自己的歸屬,驀然回首時,才發現自己
就是那最重要的部分,一但我們能夠將自己settle down,就能擁有最正面的
力量,也才能夠明白自己的價值~(自己的感想啦)

Mr Big

Mr Big   by Ed Vere

"Let me tell you a story about a friend of mine, he goes by the name of BIG...
Mr Big.  Now Mr Big had a small problem. Compared to everyone else, he was extremely...
BIG."

外表魁武,人見人怕...Mr Big is always alone everywhere, cafe shop, swimming pool.....
lonesome is inside his heart, no one wants to know the "real" Mr Big. All they know is
just the size.

Until the music changes everything and people start to listen his music by piano, that is so
warm, beautiful and touchable sound.  "Who is the player?"

An invitation sent to Mr Big, there is a band wants him to participate the group, will Mr Big
go to join them or not?

THe boy who lost his bellybutton

THe boy who lost his bellybutton  by Jeanne Willis  Tony Ross

超強組合,再一次令人捧腹大笑的作品,誰會掉了肚臍眼呢?
到哪兒去找呢?當然是去最多動物聚集的叢林裡囉....
途中碰到了長頸鹿,大猩猩,森林之王獅子.....他想要幫忙,
便要求所有動物中有肚臍眼的舉手....到底肚臍眼落在誰
那裏呢??

Little Brown Bushrat

Little Brown Bushrat by Georgie Ripper


A lot of animals they group together and talk loudly. They were busy discussing what it
was that each of them did best.

"I am by far the most beautiful" said lyrebird
"I can jump higher that anyone else" said kangaroo
"I can hang upside down by my tail" said the possum
"I can run the fastest" who is that?  Yes, -> emu

Bushrat was amazed. He couldn't run very fast, or jump very well, despite what his
mother said, he didn't think he was very beautiful.  He was also pretty sure that if
he tried to hang upside down by this tail, something very nasty would happen.

The rainbow lorikeet was the most colourful.
The duck-billed platypus was the best swimmer.
The echidna had the best nose for miles around.
Even the lazy koala could sleep for longer than anyone else.

What is the bushrat good at??? He asked himself. Nothing!!!  Is it real? Suddenly,
the wompoo fruit dove come bursting into the clearing. "Fire!" she squawked...
Everyone was silent......and PANIC!...How the bushrat save everyone with his wisedom?

You will never want to miss the part.....

What game shall we play?

 

What game shall we play?    by Pat Hutchins

      

 "Hide and Seek" that is always the most interesting game for all toddlers and
young kids, There are many animals hid in Hatchins' picture book. They enjoy
to find the animals again and again based on the clues author left.

I'm also the fan of Hutchins, the famous book people known should be the
book "Rosie's Walk". Look the eyes of her animals and you can find they
all look back you. Amazing.

Nicolas, where have you been?

Nicolas, where have you been?      by Leo Lionni 

 (words from the book)
(pictures from website)

While hunting for sweet red berries, Nicolas Mouse is snatched
up and carried away by a big ugly bird. But that is only the beginning
of Nicolas's remarkable adventure.
Days later, when he returns home and begins telling his mice friends
what happened to him, they interrupt his story, shouting, "Down with
the birds! War on the birds!" Nicolas shouts back, " Let me finish!"
And when he does, they all agree with Uncle Raymond Mouse that
"one" bad bird doesn't make flock."

Four-time Caldecott Honor Book author-artist Leo Lionni has created
 a fable that children will want to hear again and again, and one with
 special meaning today. As the Horn Book Magazine wrote, "Nicolas,
Where Have You Been? is a fine, cheerful example of an ethical,
philosophical idea cast as a dightful  picture book.

 

 

 I love Leo Lionni, he is amazing and he just know how kid's thought and 
can give all imagainations into the charactors of the books preciselly.