內容簡介
內容簡介 A 2015 Caldecott Honor BookWith perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor.Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing. Yet the day turns out to be pretty spectacular after all. Attentive readers will be rewarded with a rare treasure in this witty story of looking for the extraordinary — and finding it in a manner you’d never expect.
作者介紹
作者介紹 Mac Barnett, the 2025-2026 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, is a New York Times best-selling author of stories for children. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and sold more than five million copies worldwide. Mac Barnett's books have won many prizes, including two Caldecott Honors, three New York Times New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book Awards, three E. B. White Read-Aloud Awards, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Germany's Jugendliteraturpreis, China's Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award, the Netherlands' Zilveren Griffel, and Italy's Premio Orbil. He is the cocreator, with Jon Klassen, of the Substack Looking at Picture Books, as well as Shape Island, a stop-motion animated series on Apple TV+, based on their best-selling Shapes series of picture books. Mac Barnett lives in Oakland, California. Jon Klassen is the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of I Want My Hat Back (a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book) and its companions, We Found a Hat and This Is Not My Hat (a Caldecott Medal and Kate Greenaway Medal winner), as well as The Skull, The Rock from the Sky, The House with Nobody in It, and the Your Places and Your Things board book series. He is also the illustrator of numerous children's books, including Sam and Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn (both Caldecott Honor Books), Triangle, Square, and Circle, all by Mac Barnett; House Held Up by Trees by Ted Kooser; and the Pax series by Sara Pennypacker. Originally from Ontario, Canada, Jon Klassen is a member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to children's literature. He now lives in Los Angeles.