纽伯瑞儿童文学奖
The Westing Game 豆瓣 Goodreads
The Westing Game
作者: Ellen Raskin Puffin 2004 - 4
A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger - and a possible murderer - to inherit his vast fortune, one thing's for sure: Sam Westing may be dead... but that won't stop him from playing one last game!
2021年8月21日 已读
莫名其妙的故事,大富翁有钱任性举行的一场游戏,一开始以为是讽刺人性,最后发现结局都过上幸福生活了,所以主旨是什么?
儿童文学 纽伯瑞儿童文学奖
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain 豆瓣
作者: Dalgliesh, Alice Simon & Schuster 2008
There are no bears on Hemlock Mountain, No bears, no bears at all...Or so young Jonathan is told by the grown-ups as he sets out alone over Hemlock Mountain. But as Jonathan discovers on the cold winter night, grown-ups don't always know...And there are bears on Hemlock Mountain
Sarah, Plain and Tall 豆瓣
作者: Patricia MacLachlan HarperTrophy 1987 - 9
<p align="center">"Did Mama sing every day?"<br /> Caleb asks his sister Anna.<br /> "Every-single-day," she answers.<br /> "Papa sang, too."</p>
Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Anna, and Caleb write back. Caleb asks if she sings. Sarah decides to come for a month. She writes Papa: I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall, and Tell them I sing. Anna and Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she like them? Will she stay?</p>
2021年8月5日 已读
篇幅非常短小的一部纽伯瑞作品,人物塑造比田园牧歌的描写部分更成功,俩姐弟的互动活灵活现,是本作的优点,但我过不了邮寄新娘这个设定,总觉得每位将自己“寄”出去的女子面对未来感受到更多的是无助和飘零,而不是幸福和美满。搜索时无法相信中文版竟然译成“又丑又高的萨拉“!
儿童文学 纽伯瑞儿童文学奖
The One and Only Ivan 豆瓣
作者: Katherine Applegate (作者) / Patricia Castelao(插图作者) HarperCollins 2012 - 1
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all.
Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or the sound of leaves with color and a well-placed line.
Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home—and his own art—through new eyes. When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and it’s up to Ivan to make it a change for the better.
Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create Ivan’s unforgettable first-person narration in a story of friendship, art, and hope.
2021年7月14日 已读
非常出色的一部作品。文笔优美,人物饱满,每次都在我暗喊要踩坑时完美掠过,Adam Grupper 的声演也很棒!
儿童文学 纽伯瑞儿童文学奖
The Giver 豆瓣
8.6 (16 个评分) 作者: Lois Lowry Laurel Leaf 2002 - 9
The Giver译为“赐予者”或“授者”,是洛伊丝·洛利最著名的也是最受争议的作品。在The Giver里,作者描绘了一个想像出来的乌托邦世界。在这个社会里,人们的生活都被安排得好好的,人们不用决定工作,不用决定配偶,这些问题,社会都帮个人做好了决定。而这个世界也没有记忆、感情、颜色及音乐,人们只有最基本的生活需求。但有一个人例外,他一个人承担了整个世界该有的记忆,他必须独自承受痛苦、恐惧、和孤单,而他也同时知道什麼是温暖、幸福和爱。这个人被称为the receiver of memory,也就是the Giver。当12岁的男主角Jonas成为这个the receiver of memory的接班人后,他得到了他以前所不曾有过的经验,而当他知道愈多时,他愈发现这个世界的不合理,最后他选择了逃离……
2021年6月23日 已读
这一部有点虎头蛇尾的感觉,开头写得很吸引人,社区一派祥和气息,接下来,不协和感越来越强烈;但也许是为了照顾目标读者的年龄,又或是作者野心仅止于将此作作为青少年对敌托邦的入门:社区里规则的制定源于对灾难的规避,上层组织的描写基本缺席了,而The Giver 这个设定也太取巧,基本上主角拨开迷雾重新认识这个世界完全听从于此君(想想也难怪,人家让你在这个世界里看到色彩了),The Giver 本人能力这么强(传功能力太犯规了吧),地位还奇高,权限好像也没有限制,到底是谁能够管得住他呢?最后,主角的出逃写成开放结局还是挺好的。
Dystopia 儿童文学 反乌托邦 纽伯瑞儿童文学奖
El Deafo 豆瓣
作者: Cece Bell Harry N. Abrams 2014 - 9
Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful—and very awkward—hearing aid.
The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear—sometimes things she shouldn’t—but also isolates her from her classmates. She really just wants to fit in and find a true friend, someone who appreciates her as she is. After some trouble, she is finally able to harness the power of the Phonic Ear and become “El Deafo, Listener for All.” And more importantly, declare a place for herself in the world and find the friend she’s longed for.
2021年3月22日 已读
总体可能平淡了点,但可以看到作者在患病的背景下仍有个很棒的70年代童年,谢谢作者的分享,能让我了解到听障人士的世界,希望以后我也能像书中的人物那样为他人传递关怀。
children 儿童文学 纽伯瑞儿童文学奖 美国
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! 豆瓣
作者: Laura Amy Schlitz Candlewick Press 2007 - 7
Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters.
Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons — in these pages, readers will meet them all. There’s Hugo, the lord’s nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by selling live eels; and the peasant’s daughter, Mogg, who gets a clever lesson in how to save a cow from a greedy landlord. There’s also mud-slinging Barbary (and her noble victim); Jack, the compassionate half-wit; Alice, the singing shepherdess; and many more. With a deep appreciation for the period and a grand affection for both characters and audience, Laura Amy Schlitz creates twenty-two riveting portraits and linguistic gems equally suited to silent reading or performance. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings by Robert Byrd — inspired by the Munich-Nuremberg manuscript, an illuminated poem from thirteenth-century Germany — this witty, historically accurate, and utterly human collection forms an exquisite bridge to the people and places of medieval England.
2021年3月16日 已读
小朋友们,能有这样的图书馆老师可是超幸运的啊!不满百页的篇幅里作者写了十七个独白小剧场,让小朋友去演出来,从而完成学习“中世纪生活”这个课题,我实名羡慕。而且这些以诗写成的故事完成度甚高,鲜活地重现了中世纪里被命运安排的平民百姓的生活,除了看天吃饭,也得看贵族老爷的性情吃饭。每个的角色性格都各异,为作品增添许多趣味,模仿手抄本装饰画风格的插画也执行得恰到好处,真乃佳作也!
children 儿童文学 纽伯瑞儿童文学奖 美国
Number the Stars 豆瓣 Goodreads
9.3 (9 个评分) 作者: Lois Lowry Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group 1998 - 2
Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life.
2021年3月1日 已读
一开始觉得本作的语言太过平铺直叙,但读下来意识到这是完全从小孩子的角度上来写的(特别是以妹妹为中心埋下的几个小细节),是要跟孩子们讲述一个离他们即遥远又不遥远的故事(我尤其喜欢里面对勇气的诠释),后记里有说到,故事人物固然是虚构的,但真实的事件却是真真确确在历史上发生过,包括那个让狗短暂失去嗅觉的发明。再次为纽伯瑞奖的广度击节,看过的这几部里没有两部雷同的。
children 儿童文学 纽伯瑞儿童文学奖 美国
When You Reach Me 豆瓣
作者: Rebecca Stead Wendy Lamb Books 2009 - 7
Winner of the 2010 John Newbery Medal

Four mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.

By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it’s safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy guy on the corner.
But things start to unravel. Sal gets punched by a new kid for what seems like no reason, and he shuts Miranda out of his life. The apartment key that Miranda’s mom keeps hidden for emergencies is stolen. And then Miranda finds a mysterious note scrawled on a tiny slip of paper:
I am coming to save your friend’s life, and my own.
I must ask two favors. First, you must write me a letter.
The notes keep coming, and Miranda slowly realizes that whoever is leaving them knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she’s too late.
2021年2月9日 已读
好故事,一开始感觉记流水账一般,但最后各种线索都连上了,还传达出很多正面的理念:1)意识到了和做到了还是两回事;2)有些错误需要一辈子时间才可能修正;3)人还真是一种由各种小事情连接起来的生物啊!看完这个不得不去看《时间的皱纹》了(并没有抗拒)。
children 儿童文学 纽伯瑞儿童文学奖 美国
Because of Winn-Dixie 豆瓣
作者: DiCamillo, Kate Candlewick Pr 2001 - 8
Recalling the fiction of Harper Lee and Carson McCullers, here is a funny, poignant, and utterly genuine first novel from a major new talent.

The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket--and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the local librarian, Miss Franny Block, who once fought off a bear with a copy of WAR AND PEACE. They meet Gloria Dump, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart, and Otis, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours, then lulls them with his guitar.Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship--and forgiveness--can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm.
2021年2月1日 已读
故事梗概:Winn-Dixie 是条流浪狗,他的新主人是位十岁的小姑娘,两颗孤独的心碰撞在一起了,互相治愈了彼此。太佩服这位作者的文笔了,那些小心翼翼不敢触碰的情绪可以这么细腻地表达出来,大雨中那一幕很意外也很感人,雨后小姑娘终于不再称呼爸爸为“那位牧师”了,先换成 Father,很快就转成 Daddy 了,很温暖的小故事。
children 儿童文学 纽伯瑞儿童文学奖 美国
Holes 豆瓣
7.8 (8 个评分) 作者: Sachar, Louis 2001 - 8
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: 5 feet wide and 5 feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment -- and redemption.
2021年1月23日 已读
很多桥段似曾相似的感觉,不知道为什么以前看封设总觉得是个搞笑的故事,这本没有打太高分是因为我觉得里面的线索埋得太刻意了,不过还是佩服作者给小读者写了个发生在少管所的故事,突然憧憬起加入纽伯瑞奖评选委员会。
children 儿童文学 纽伯瑞儿童文学奖 美国
The Tale of Despereaux 豆瓣
作者: Kate DiCamillo Candlewick 2006 - 4
"Forgiveness, light, love, and soup. These essential ingredients combine into a tale that is as soul-stirring as it is delicious." — BOOKLIST (starred review)
Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. What happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out.
From the master storyteller who brought us BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE comes another classic, a fairy tale full of quirky, unforgettable characters, with twenty-four stunning black-and-white illustrations by Timothy Basil Ering. This paperback edition pays tribute to the book's classicdesign, featuring a rough front and elegant gold stamping.
2021年1月18日 已读
Bravo!光明与黑暗,Empathy 和 Forgiveness,不陈腐不低估小朋友读者的童话。节奏太棒了,细节还看出草蛇灰线的感觉来,观感太棒了,其他的 Newbery Medal Winners,我来也!
children 儿童文学 纽伯瑞儿童文学奖 美国
New Kid 豆瓣
作者: Jerry Craft / Jim Callahan Harper Collins Publishers
Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade.As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds—and not really fitting into either one. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself?
The Graveyard Book 豆瓣 Goodreads Goodreads
The Graveyard Book
8.8 (19 个评分) 作者: [英国] 尼尔·盖曼 HarperCollins 2008 - 1
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack--who has already killed Bod's family. . . . Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his "New York Times" bestselling modern classic "Coraline." Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.
2019年8月25日 已读
第二次看,越发喜欢这个故事了,也能够看出故事外的韵味来了,故事的结尾结得恰如其分而又余味无穷。还有最喜欢的角色非Silas无疑了,这就是Neil Gaiman本人嘛!
Fantasy NeilGaiman children 儿童文学 奇幻