内容简介
The Caldecott medal-winning d'Aulaires once again captivate their young audience with this beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse legends, telling stories of Odin the All-father, Thor the Thunder-god and the theft of his hammer, Loki the mischievous god of the Jotun Race, and Ragnarokk, the destiny of the gods. Children meet Bragi, the god of poetry, and the famous Valkyrie maidens, among other gods, goddesses, heroes, and giants. Illustrations throughout depict the wondrous other world of Norse folklore and its fantastical Northern landscape.
作者简介
Ingri Mortenson and
Edgar Parin d’Aulaire met at art school in Munich in 1921. Edgar’s father was a noted Italian portrait painter, his mother a Parisian. Ingri, the youngest of five children, traced her lineage back to the Viking kings.
The couple married in Norway, then moved to Paris. As Bohemian artists, they often talked about emigrating to America. “The enormous continent with all its possibilities and grandeur caught our imagination,” Edgar later recalled.
A small payment from a bus accident provided the means. Edgar sailed alone to New York where he earned enough by illustrating books to buy passage for his wife. Once there, Ingri painted portraits and hosted modest dinner parties. The head librarian of the New York Public Library’s juvenile department attended one of those. Why, she asked, didn’t they create picture books for children?
The d’Aulaires published their first children’s book in 1931. Next came three books steeped in the Scandinavian folklore of Ingri’s childhood. Then the couple turned their talents to the history of their new country. The result was a series of beautifully illustrated books about American heroes, one of which,
Abraham Lincoln, won the d’Aulaires the American Library Association’s Caldecott Medal. Finally they turned to the realm of myths.
The d’Aulaires worked as a team on both art and text throughout their joint career. Originally, they used stone lithography for their illustrations. A single four-color illustration required four slabs of Bavarian limestone that weighed up to two hundred pounds apiece. The technique gave their illustrations an uncanny hand-drawn vibrancy. When, in the early 1960s, this process became too expensive, the d’Aulaires switched to acetate sheets which closely approximated the texture of lithographic stone.
In their nearly five-decade career, the d’Aulaires received high critical acclaim for their distinguished contributions to children’s literature. They were working on a new book when Ingri died in 1980 at the age of seventy-five. Edgar continued working until he died in 1985 at the age of eighty-six.
Michael Chabon is the author of several books, including
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,
Wonder Boys,
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay,
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union,
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son and, most recently,
Telegraph Avenue.,,,,
精彩书评
"…a mythological tour de force."
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The New York Times"Out of print for many years,
Norse Gods and Giants has been very handsomely reissued by the The New York Review Children’s Collection and retitled
D’Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths. Featuring a sturdy sewn binding, the book arguably represents the pinnacle of the d’Aulaires’ achievement as storytellers and artists….the prose seems livelier and more robust in the Norse myths than in the Greek…Their retelling of the Greek myths for children had to pull its punches somewhat….but since sex doesn't feature as prominently in Norse mythology, this book is able to stay scrupulously faithful to the Edda and still maintain its PG rating. But not to worry: there’s still a lot of drinking, fighting and bad behavior, particularly on the part of fiery Thor, who is forever whacking frost giants on the head with his hammer, and the highly entertaining Loki, who is one of the most complicated and devious characters in anybody’s mythology, anywhere. Loki is the Bart Simpson of Norse mythology, forever pulling pranks, forever getting caught and forever talking his way out of the consequences…"
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The New York Times Book Review"[These] works, especially the books of Norse and Greek myths, were and remain crucial to me, and now to my own children. The interest in mythology that was kindled by those two books has endured throughout my life, and has directly influenced my own writing in countless ways…The Norse book was always my favorite, though. I must have read it a dozen times at least by the time I was nine or ten."
— Michael Chabon
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北京地区的动物区系有属于蒙新区东部草原、长白山地、松辽平原的区系成分,也有东洋界季风区、长江南北的动物区系成分,故北京的动物区系有由古北界向东洋界过渡的动物区系特征。此动物区系中有兽类约40种,鸟类约220种,爬行动物16种,两栖动物7种,鱼类60种。[9]
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东西不错,价格也便宜,暂时没挑出啥毛病。
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北京没有天然湖泊。北京市有水库85座,其中大型水库有密
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是好书,孩子喜欢!
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特别好 纸质也好
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甲骨的书,早在3000多年前的殷代后期,当时纸尚未发明,人们就地取材,以龟甲和兽骨为材料,把内容刻在龟甲或兽骨上,这就是甲骨的书。石头的书在古代,石头也用来作书写材料,甚至将整篇作品或整部著作刻于石上。简牍的书简牍是对我国古代遗存下来的写有文字的竹简与木牍的概称。缣帛的书,缣
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北京地区的动物区系有属于蒙新区东部草原、长白山地、松辽平原的区系成分,也有东洋界季风区、长江南北的动物区系成分,故北京的动物区系有由古北界向东洋界过渡的动物区系特征。此动物区系中有兽类约40种,鸟类约220种,爬行动物16种,两栖动物7种,鱼类60种。[9]
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北京没有天然湖泊。北京市有水库85座,其中大型水库有密
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