國際安徒生大獎得主《你記不記得⋯⋯》Do You Remember?

 
　　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 Double Kate Greenaway Medal-winning creator of Small in the City and illustrator of Town Is by the Sea, Footpath Flowers, I Talk Like a River and My Baba's Garden comes a moving look at how memories are made.

　　Tucked up in bed at their new flat, a boy and his mum share 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 of those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favourite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined.

　　Do You Remember? is another unforgettable book from award-winning author and illustrator Sydney Smith.

Sydney Smith is the creator of Small in the City, which received the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Ezra Jack Keats Award. Other books he has illustrated include The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart; Footpath Flowers by JonArno Lawson; and Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz, which received the Kate Greenaway Medal. His other accolades include two Governor General’s Awards and four New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year citations. He is also the illustrator of I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott, which received the Schneider Family Book Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award as well as being shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal; and My Baba’s Garden, also written by Jordan Scott. Sydney lives with his family in Halifax, Nova Scotia.