內容簡介
The gripping story of young Karana, who survives by herself for eighteen years on a deserted island off the California coast. Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
作者簡介
Scott O'Dell (1898-1989), one of the most respected authors of historical fiction, received the Newbery Medal, three Newbery Honor Medals, and the Hans Christian Andersen Author Medal, the highest international recognition for a body of work by an author of books for young readers. Some of his many books include The Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Road to Damietta, Sing Down the Moon, and The Black Pearl.
精彩書評
Product Description The Newberry Medal-winning story of a 12-year old girl who lives alone on a Pacific island after she leaps from a rescue ship. Isolated on the island for eighteen years, Karana forages for food, builds weapons to fight predators, clothes herself in a cormorant feathered skirt, and finds strength and peace in her seclusion. A classic tale of discovery and solitude returns to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for its 50th anniversary, with a new introduction by Lois Lowry. Amazon Exclusive: A Letter from Lois Lowry on Writing the Introduction to Island of the Blue Dolphins, 50th Anniversary Edition Dear Amazon readers, Last summer, when I was asked to write an introduction to a new edition of Island of the Blue Dolphins, my mind went back in time to the 1960s, when my children were young and it was one of their best-loved books. But a later memory surfaced, as well, of a party I was invited to in the summer of 1979. By now the kids were grown. I was in New York to attend a convention of the American Library Association, and Scott O'Dell's publisher, Houghton Mifflin, was honoring him at a reception being held at the St. Regis Hotel. I had never met Mr. O'Dell. But because of my own children I knew his books, and I was pleased to be invited to such an illustrious event. I was staying at a nearby hotel and planned to walk over to the party. But when I began to get dressed, I encountered a problem. I was wearing, I remember, a rose-colored crêpe de Chine dress. It buttoned up the back. I was alone in my hotel room. I buttoned the bottom buttons, and I buttoned the top buttons, but there was one button in the middle of my back that I simply couldn’t reach. It makes me laugh today, thinking about it, picturing the contortions I went through in that hotel room: twisting my arms, twisting my back, all to no avail. The clock was ticking. The party would start soon. I had no other clothes except the casual things I'd been wearing all day and which were now wrinkled from the summer heat. Finally I decided, The heck with it. I left the room with the button unbuttoned and headed off. When I got in my hotel elevator, a benign-looking older couple, probably tourists from the Midwest, were already standing inside, and I explained my predicament politely and asked if they could give me a hand. The gray-haired man kindly buttoned my dress for me. We parted company in the lobby of my hotel and off I went to the St. Regis, where I milled around and chatted with countless people, sipped wine, and waited for the guest of honor, Scott O'Dell, to be introduced. When he was, of course he turned out to be the eighty-one-year-old man who had buttoned my dress. But wait! There's more. Ten years passed. I had never seen Mr. O'Dell during the intervening years, but now, suddenly, we were the two speakers at a luncheon being held on a college campus somewhere. I think it may have been Vassar. We sat next to each other at the head table, nibbling our chicken, chatting about the weather. I knew he wouldn't remember me, but I certainly remembered him, and I was secretly thinking that when it was my turn to speak, I might tell the audience the amusing little anecdote about the button on my dress. But he went first. And, eyes twinkling, he started his speech with "The last time I was with Lois Lowry, we were in a New York hotel. I was helping her get dressed." He was ninety-one at the time. All of this floated back into my mind when I found myself rereading, last summer, The Island of the Blue Dolphins. None of it was appropriate to the book's introduction, of course, and I went on to write, instead, about the power of the story and the magnificence of the writing. Not that anyone needed reminding! There has never been a question about Scott O'Dell's brilliance as a writer and storyteller. But it's nice to have a chance, here, to tell an audience that he was also a sweet and funny man. Lois Lowry (Photo ? Neil Giordano) "Island of the Blue Dolphins has the timeless enduring quality of a classic." (Chicago Tribune )
精彩書摘
Chapter 1 I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our island. At first it seemed like a small shell afloat on the sea. Then it grew larger and was a gull with folded wings. At last in the rising sun it became what it really was—a red ship with two red s
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Island of the Blue Dolphins 藍色的海豚島 英文原版 [平裝] [9-12歲] 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式
Island of the Blue Dolphins 藍色的海豚島 英文原版 [平裝] [9-12歲] 下載 mobi pdf epub txt 電子書 格式 2024
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奧颱爾是一個經曆十分豐富的作傢,他參加過兩次世界大戰,還是好萊塢最早的一批電影精英中的一員。他是一名電影攝像師兼技術編導,曾參與過多部早期無聲電影的製作,最著名的一部是曆史劇《班豪》。
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買來還沒看,書的質量不錯
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字體較小,獲奬作品。要是有配套的音頻就更好瞭。
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英文版,孩子看著有點吃力
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給孩子的書,不錯的。。。。。給孩子的書,不錯的。。。。。
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還沒看呢,湊單的,朋友推薦的
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的一眼。然後她纔在心裏慢慢來看她飛快看見的:他是不難看的。不對,他是好看的。不僅如此,他半閉的眼睛非常好看。它們半閉著,是因為他為自己的溫和、多情而窘迫。一個星期後,叫做張春美的丫頭走瞭。她自己背著一個草綠發黃的被包捲,穿著油亮亮的新軍裝,在全樓人的歡送群體裏像個歡快移動的郵筒。她被送到坡下,上瞭大馬路。人們稀拉下來,嚮這個將來可能成為雷鋒阿姨的丫頭揮手,想到丫頭在樓上樓下留的笑聲、足音、美德,都眼睛濕漉漉的。剩下的人是丫頭最親近的人,張傢的三個長輩兩個晚輩一條瘸腿黑狗,以及丫頭的班主任、兩個女同學。
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挺好的書,給孩子買的
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物流速度很快,物品質量不錯。
Island of the Blue Dolphins 藍色的海豚島 英文原版 [平裝] [9-12歲] mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式下載 2024