The Polar Express

作者: Chris Van Allsburg （克里斯·凡·奥斯伯格）著

出版社: Oversea Publishing House

出版时间: 2009-09

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780395389492

定价: 159.30

装帧: 精装

开本: 其他

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 32页

正文语种: 英语

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>文学

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Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives there, Santa offers him any gift he desires. The boy modestly asks for one bell from the reindeer's harness. It turns out to be a very special gift, for only believers in Santa can hear it ring.

本书图像精美，文字简练，并配有相应的拼音，使得孩子在欣赏漂亮图画的同时，又学习了知识，可谓一举双得。这是一段激动人心的奇幻旅程。一个漫天飘雪的圣诞前夜，奇迹终于降临在坚信世间有圣诞老人存在在少年面前，一列开往北极的蒸气火车停在他家的门口……于是，在这个奇异的雪夜里，少年被魔法带到了圣诞老人的神秘世界。许多年过去了，直到他成为了一个大人，这个童年的奇迹也没有褪去它的颜色，他还听见那美妙的银铃声。 ChrisVanAllsburgisthewinneroftwoCaldecottMedals,for"Jumanji"and"ThePolarExpress",aswellastherecipientofaCaldecottHonorBookfor"TheGardenofAbdulGasazi".Theauthorandillustratorofnumerouspicturebooksforchildren,hehasalsobeenawardedtheReginaMedalforlifetimeachievementinchildren'sliterature.In1982,JumanjiwontheNationalBookAwardandin1996,itwasmadeintoapopularfeaturefilm.ChrisVanAllsburgwasformerlyaninstructorattheRhodeIslandSchoolofDesign.HelivesinRhodeIslandwithhiswifeandtwochildren. Dear Readers,

Over the past twenty-five years, many people have shared stories with me about the effect that reading The Polar Express has had on their families and on their celebration of Christmas.

One of the most poignant was told to me five or six years ago at a book signing in the Midwest, on a snowy December evening. As I inscribed a book to a woman in her sixties, she told me that it was the second copy she had owned, and wanted to know if she could she tell me what had happened to the first. "Of course," I answered.

A dozen years earlier the woman, who had no children of her own, befriended a neighbor, a boy of about seven, named Eddie. He would often cross his driveway to visit her.

She had a collection of picture books, which she read to him, but around the holidays, the only story he ever wanted to hear, over and over, was The Polar Express. One year she offered to give him the book, but Eddie declined because he wanted to hear her read it aloud to him, which she continued to do every year until the boy and his family moved away.

Years later the woman learned from a mutual acquaintance that Eddie had grown up and become a soldier. He was stationed in Iraq. Since Christmas was approaching, the woman decided to send him a gift box. She included candy, cookies, socks, and her old copy of The Polar Express. She wasn't sure what a nineteen-year-old battle-weary soldier would do with the book in an army barracks in the Middle East, but she wanted him to have it. A month later, after the holidays had passed, she received a letter from Eddie.

He told her he was very happy to have heard from her and to get the box of gifts. He had opened it in his barracks, just before curfew, with some of his fellow GIs already in their bunks. A soldier in the next bunk spotted the book. He knew it well from his own childhood and asked Eddie to read it. "Out loud?" he asked. "Yeah," his buddy told him.

Eddie, quietly and a little self-consciously, read The Polar Express. When he'd finished and closed the book, a moment of silence passed. Then from behind him a voice called out, "Read it again," and another joined in, "Yeah, read it again," and a third added, "This time, louder." So Eddie did.

He wrote to the woman that he'd stood up and read it to his comrades just the way he remembered she had read it to him.

All aboard,

Chris Van Allsburg
内容简介:
Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives there, Santa offers him any gift he desires. The boy modestly asks for one bell from the reindeer's harness. It turns out to be a very special gift, for only believers in Santa can hear it ring.

本书图像精美，文字简练，并配有相应的拼音，使得孩子在欣赏漂亮图画的同时，又学习了知识，可谓一举双得。这是一段激动人心的奇幻旅程。一个漫天飘雪的圣诞前夜，奇迹终于降临在坚信世间有圣诞老人存在在少年面前，一列开往北极的蒸气火车停在他家的门口……于是，在这个奇异的雪夜里，少年被魔法带到了圣诞老人的神秘世界。许多年过去了，直到他成为了一个大人，这个童年的奇迹也没有褪去它的颜色，他还听见那美妙的银铃声。
作者简介:
ChrisVanAllsburgisthewinneroftwoCaldecottMedals,for"Jumanji"and"ThePolarExpress",aswellastherecipientofaCaldecottHonorBookfor"TheGardenofAbdulGasazi".Theauthorandillustratorofnumerouspicturebooksforchildren,hehasalsobeenawardedtheReginaMedalforlifetimeachievementinchildren'sliterature.In1982,JumanjiwontheNationalBookAwardandin1996,itwasmadeintoapopularfeaturefilm.ChrisVanAllsburgwasformerlyaninstructorattheRhodeIslandSchoolofDesign.HelivesinRhodeIslandwithhiswifeandtwochildren.
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Dear Readers,

Over the past twenty-five years, many people have shared stories with me about the effect that reading The Polar Express has had on their families and on their celebration of Christmas.

One of the most poignant was told to me five or six years ago at a book signing in the Midwest, on a snowy December evening. As I inscribed a book to a woman in her sixties, she told me that it was the second copy she had owned, and wanted to know if she could she tell me what had happened to the first. "Of course," I answered.

A dozen years earlier the woman, who had no children of her own, befriended a neighbor, a boy of about seven, named Eddie. He would often cross his driveway to visit her.

She had a collection of picture books, which she read to him, but around the holidays, the only story he ever wanted to hear, over and over, was The Polar Express. One year she offered to give him the book, but Eddie declined because he wanted to hear her read it aloud to him, which she continued to do every year until the boy and his family moved away.

Years later the woman learned from a mutual acquaintance that Eddie had grown up and become a soldier. He was stationed in Iraq. Since Christmas was approaching, the woman decided to send him a gift box. She included candy, cookies, socks, and her old copy of The Polar Express. She wasn't sure what a nineteen-year-old battle-weary soldier would do with the book in an army barracks in the Middle East, but she wanted him to have it. A month later, after the holidays had passed, she received a letter from Eddie.

He told her he was very happy to have heard from her and to get the box of gifts. He had opened it in his barracks, just before curfew, with some of his fellow GIs already in their bunks. A soldier in the next bunk spotted the book. He knew it well from his own childhood and asked Eddie to read it. "Out loud?" he asked. "Yeah," his buddy told him.

Eddie, quietly and a little self-consciously, read The Polar Express. When he'd finished and closed the book, a moment of silence passed. Then from behind him a voice called out, "Read it again," and another joined in, "Yeah, read it again," and a third added, "This time, louder." So Eddie did.

He wrote to the woman that he'd stood up and read it to his comrades just the way he remembered she had read it to him.

All aboard,

Chris Van Allsburg