席尼.史密斯(Sydney Smith)
以一位小男孩的回憶為主軸,
再度以沉靜,卻蘊含濃厚張力的筆觸,
捕捉難以言喻的深層情感,撼動人心。
英國凱特格林威大獎得主席尼.史密斯(Sydney Smith)以一位小男孩的回憶為主軸,出版第二本自寫自畫的繪本《你還記得嗎》(Do you Remember)。
深夜,關上燈的房間裡,一對母子躺在彼此的身旁,從一句「你還記得嗎?」把時間拉回到某個溫暖愜意的午後,愉悅的野餐時光,小男孩第一次騎上腳踏車的鮮明回憶……另一句「你還記得嗎?」讓時間跳轉到某個暴雨的夜晚,黑漆漆的屋內正在漏水,母親仰賴油燈的微光,尋找著男孩的身影……再一句「你還記得嗎?」男孩和母親揮別舊家和熟悉的身影,母親開車載著男孩和打包好的物品,穿越了整座城市……每個停格的瞬間,繪出隱晦的線索。
如今男孩與母親躺在這個房間內,彼此依靠,他們知道,這將是銜接過去與未來,回憶中另一個重要的時刻。
擅長用定格畫面捕捉角色內心狀態的席尼.史密斯,前作另有《城市裡的小訪客》(Small in the City)、《我說話像河流》(I Talk Like a River)、《我家在海邊》(Town Is by the Sea),每一本作品的畫面和張力,都深刻地烙印在讀者心底,佳評如潮,屢獲美國《紐約時報》、《柯克思書評》年度最佳繪本……等眾多獎項肯定。(文/博客來編譯)
From the multiple award-winning creator of Small in the City and the illustrator of I Talk Like a River comes a fresh and moving look at memories, filtered through the mind of a child.
Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book AwardTucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it’s just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined. In a series of warm and wistful vignettes, as achingly fleeting as childhood memories always become, Sydney Smith takes us into the mind of a young person processing a bevy of complex emotions during a major life change. Do You Remember? is a stirring meditation on holding fast to the best of the past, and choosing to believe in the future. Sydney Smith is the winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international distinction given to authors and illustrators of children’s books. A Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended TitleA New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year
A Smithsonian Magazine Best Children’s Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
A Chicago Public Library ’Best of the Best’ Book
A Horn Book Fanfare Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection