Are We There Yet?: A Story

　　和孩子有長途搭車經驗的家長，一定會聽到孩子不下數百遍的詢問--“我們到了嗎?”作者Dan Santat將此 "經典提問”翻轉成，猶如“芝麻開門”的通關密語，帶孩子穿越時空，到處冒險。



　　誠如愛因斯坦的簡化相對論解釋:「一個男人與美女對坐一小時，會覺得似乎只過了一分鐘；但如果讓他坐在熱火爐上一分鐘，會覺得似乎過了不只一小時」，在此書中，男孩就是因為感到無聊，時間就開始變慢，緩慢到開始倒退--回溯到海盜猖獗的航海時期！遇到了中古世紀的公主！還有恐龍到處跑的侏儸紀！真實生活中的男孩，原本只是坐車要去參加奶奶的生日派對，但現在的他正忙著穿越時空，一會在古埃及旅行，下一秒則和班傑明•富蘭克林不期而遇。當心囉，當時間長出翅膀，誰也不知道他最後會到哪些地方，或是哪個時代。但可預期的是，對孩子來說，以後坐車長途旅行不再是件苦差事！



　　此書的特色在於畫面的處理，Dan Santat巧妙的將畫面一分為二和相互堆疊，試圖營造出讓人猶如走在可自由穿梭時空背景的"超時空"走廊裡，帶著美漫風格的連續分鏡框框，則強化了時空變化的速度感。作品的層次感和小細節，皆令人驚喜。（文／博客來編譯）

Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat--creator of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend and After the Fall--takes readers on the road trip of a lifetime!

＂Are we there yet?＂ Every parent has heard this classic kid question on a long car ride--and after reading this astonishingly inventive new book (that even turns upside down for several pages!), you’ll never look at being bored the same way again.

Let’s face it: everyone knows that car rides can be boring. And when things get boring, time slows down. In this book, a boy feels time slowing down so much that it starts going backward--into the time of pirates! Of princesses! Of dinosaurs! The boy was just trying to get to his grandmother’s birthday party, but instead he’s traveling through Ancient Egypt and rubbing shoulders with Ben Franklin. When time flies, who knows where--or when--he’ll end up.

作者簡介

　　丹‧桑塔特（Dan Santat）美國著名作家、插畫家。學生時期主修生物學，畢業後到藝術中心設計學院攻讀設計，最為台灣讀者熟悉的作品是迪士尼頻道的動畫卡通「替身計畫」。 《The Adventures of Beekle：The Unimaginary Friend》讓他成為2015年凱迪克金獎得主。他現在和妻子、兩個兒子、一隻狗、一隻鳥還有一隻貓住在美國南加州。

　　One day a year he is Santa Claus, but the other 364 days Dan Santat writes and illustrates children's books. He is also the creator of Disney's animated hit, "The Replacements" Dan graduated with honors from the Art Center, College of Design. He lives in Southern California with his wife, two kids, a dog, a bird, and one cat.