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口吃男孩的內心風景，一本說訴「如何訴說」的書──繪本《我說話像河流》

文／黃筱茵2020年10月29日
本書以口吃男孩為主角，帶讀者看見他的挫折和無奈。總是這樣，當千言萬語在腦海迴盪，清晨的天空，雲朵層層疊疊、映著光的橘紅、紛飛的葉片捎來的訊息、昨日的想念、無限鼓脹的擔憂……所有的一切都搶著佔據你心裡的畫面，可是卻又都不發一語，你左思右想，該怎麼訴說這些那些，說得 more

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看看那流動的河水，就如同你說話的方式

優美圖文輕柔撫慰

因為和他人不一樣，而覺得自己不被認同的孩子

接受自己的不完美，找到勇氣和力量

　　如果話語卡在喉嚨，無法順利說出口，如果講出口的從來不是我真正想表達的？故事中的小男孩是個有語言障礙的孩子，在學校他因為自己和同學的不同，感到格格不入和挫折，而始終鬱鬱寡歡。幸好在父親溫柔的引導下，他將心情投射到大自然，接受自己真實的樣子，和心中的傷口和解，找到自我認同的方式。

　　詩人Jordan Scott根據自身的童年經驗，以極具力量和文學性的文字，描寫口吃的孩子會遭遇的困境。曾獲英國格林威大獎等多項重量級獎項的席尼．史密斯（Sydney Smith），以拿手的光影變化及流動的畫面運鏡，巧妙對應書中小主角的心情，更為本書增添精采的視覺效果。優美圖文輕柔撫慰每個因為自己的不同之處，而曾覺得迷失、不被認同的孩子。願你也能和書中的小男孩一樣，接受自己的不完美，找到自己的聲音。

Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner

What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? What if they never came out the way you wanted them to?

Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to get the words flowing.

A New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year

I wake up each morning with the sounds of words all around me.

And I can’t say them all . . .

When a boy who stutters feels isolated, alone, and incapable of communicating in the way he’d like, it takes a kindly father and a walk by the river to help him find his voice. Compassionate parents everywhere will instantly recognize a father’s ability to reconnect a child with the world around him.

Poet Jordan Scott writes movingly in this powerful and ultimately uplifting book, based on his own experience, and masterfully illustrated by Sydney Smith, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international distinction given to author and illustrators of children’s books. A book for any child who feels lost, lonely, or unable to fit in.

Finalist for the BC and Yukon Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
A Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book
An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book
ILA Primary Fiction Honoree
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Shelf Awareness, Bookpage, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Publishers Lunch, and more!
A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
A Bank Street Best Childrens Book of the Year!
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
A CBC Best Picture Book of the Year
A Kids’ Book Choice Award Finalist

作者介紹

Jordan Scott is a poet whose work includes Silt, Blert, DECOMP, and Night & Ox. Blert, which explores the poetics of stuttering, is the subject of two National Film Board of Canada projects, Flub and Utter: a poetic memoir of the mouth and STUTTER. Scott was the recipient of the 2018 Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize for his contributions to Canadian poetry. I Talk Like a River is Scott’s first book for children. He lives in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island with his wife and two sons.

Sydney Smith is an illustrator of picture books whose work includes Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson; The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart; and Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz, which was awarded the 2018 Kate Greenaway Medal and the 2018 Children’s Literature Award. He most recently wrote and illustrated Small in the City, which Kirkus Reviews called ＂Extraordinary, emotional, and beautifully rendered.＂ in a starred review. School Library Journal said ＂The use of line, reflection, and perspective masterfully evoke a bustling gray city.＂ in another starred review. Travis Yonker of 100 Scope Notes, a School Library Journal blog, said ＂Small in the City is one of my favorite books of 2019.＂ His accolades include a Governor General’s Award for Illustrated Children’s Books and three successive New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year citations.